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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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Say What You See, Facebook
When Matt King signed up for Facebook, in 2009, he had been completely blind for nearly twenty years.
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Cern Is Seeking Secrets of the niverse, or Maybe Opening the Portals of Hell
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for another run at smashing particles together to unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Robots Infiltrate Insect World to Learn Their Ways
Paris Diderot University researchers have developed a way to generate a robot cockroach's behavior automatically.
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Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs
The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars.
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Rover Takes on Steepest Slope Ever Tried on Mars
NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.
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Biology Software Promises Easier Way to Program Living Cells
Synthetic biologists have created software that automates the design of DNA circuits for living cells.
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Why Microsoft Believes that AI Bots Are the Only Logical Path Forward
For Microsoft, the future of communication is bots.
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.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival
A $320-million project aims to bring the textile sector into the digital era by embedding sensors and semiconductors into fabrics.
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Could Alphago Bluff Its Way Through Poker?
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.
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Why Do the Feds sually Try to nlock Phones? It's Drugs, Not Terrorism
Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen...
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.
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The Apple-Fbi Battle Is Over, But the New Crypto Wars Have Just Begun
Apple's standoff with the FBI unfolded over the course of several weeks, but ended in a matter of days.
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Where's the Lane? Self-Driving Cars Confused By Shabby .s. Roadways
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event...
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'mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth
What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars?
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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Apple's New Challenge: Learning How the .s. Cracked Its Iphone
Now that the United States government has cracked open an iPhone that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting without Apple's help, the...
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