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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Preventing Software From Causing Injury
The Self-Report Ergonomic Assessment Tool is being designed to help develop safer software by ascertaining how much stress computer programs put on users.
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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Third Gravitational Wave Detection, From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away
The void is rocking and rolling with invisible cataclysms.
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Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake
A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive...
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Learning About Nutrition From 'food Porn' and Online Quizzes
Researchers at Harvard and Columbia universities conducted a study to determine whether popular online quizzes and food imagery could be leveraged for nutrition...
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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Random Numbers: Hard Times Ahead For Hackers
Researchers at the University of Geneva have developed a new random-number generator based on the principles of quantum physics.
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Robot Design For Dummies
A interactive design tool enables novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using three-dimensionally-printed components and commercially...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Mummy Dna nravels Ancient Egyptians' Ancestry
The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure—human DNA—has proved elusive.
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Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Teport: All the Slides, Plus Analysis
The most anticipated slide deck of the year is here.
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How a Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs to a Middle-School Classroom
On a Saturday afternoon, 10 students gather at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, to learn how to edit genes.
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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Mind-Controlled Device Helps Stroke Patients Retrain Brains to Move Paralyzed Hands
Researchers have developed a hand-worn device connected to a brain-computer interface to help stroke patients retrain their brains to recover hand movements.
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w Engineers Borrow From Electronics to Build Largest Circuits to Date in Living Eukaryotic Cells
University of Washington researchers have demonstrated a new method for digital information processing in living cells.
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The Soft Side of Quantum Computing
Future quantum computers will need software tailored to their specific ways of operating.
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A New Spin on Electronics
Researchers at the University of Utah found perovskites permit easily controllable electron spin and have a sufficiently long spin lifetime to transport information...
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Software Simplified
In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground.
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Shedding Light on How Humans Walk…with Robots
Researchers have discovered that humans whose lower limbs are fastened to a typical clinical robot only modify their gait if the forces the robot applies threaten...
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