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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...
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At&t Labs Working to Combine Drone Video Footage With Artificial Intelligence Monitoring
Researchers are studying ways to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyze video shot by a drone for signs of damage to cell towers.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Wave of Electronics
Engineers at Stanford University say they have developed a flexible, organic, biodegradable electronic device.
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New Movie Shows Cassini's First Dive Over Saturn
A new movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as the spacecraft swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between...
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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Berkeley Students Create Wheelchair Add-On to Help Blind Users Navigate
A new low-cost, modular, customizable add-on system for wheelchairs employs sensors and software to make navigation easier for visually-impaired users.
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The AI Revolution Is Making Game Characters Move More Realistically
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
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Can Social Networks Help You Get Into Shape?
Researchers at the University of Southern California are studying whether social networks can help make people healthier.
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Hybrid Digital-Analog Circuits Can Increase Computational Power of Chaos-Based Systems
Combining digital and analog elements in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits boosts their computational power by enabling a larger number of inputs to be...
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Beyond Moore's Law
Chipmakers are exploring what comes after they reach the predicted limits of integrated circuit density, complexity.
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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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French Election Is Facebook's Fake News Litmus Test
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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Nasa Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April...
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Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics
Researchers have developed a method for wirelessly powering ingestible electronic devices.
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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