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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision.
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Multiple Standards Hinder Growth of Wireless Charging
Three standards organizations promote two core technologies for charging mobile devices (and even electric cars) without plugging them in.
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Isis Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media
The extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq have riveted the world's attention with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality.
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'face Time' For the Heart Diagnoses Cardiac Disease
New software can show whether or not an individual is experiencing atrial fibrillation.
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California, Texas Serve as Testing Grounds For Open Source Voting Technology
Several counties in California and Texas are hoping open source voting will be the solution to electronic voting machines now reaching the end of their lifespans...
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Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two
College students across the United States have been developing their own apps, sometimes to great success.
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Finding the 'holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
Robots that can learn how to do just about anything, including anticipating what their human owners are about to do, may be lurking around the corner if scientists...
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Memory Reformat Planned For Opportunity Mars Rover
An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash...
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Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day
Holding a children's picture book up to his computer screen, a researcher for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Laboratory for Animate Technologies in New Zealand...
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Experiment Tests Whether niverse Is a Hologram
The search for the fundamental units of space and time has officially begun.
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Nasa Telescopes ncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy
Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction.
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How Social Media Silences Debate
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge. But overall...
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Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox
Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed.
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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...
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Android Flaw Might Also Affect Ios, Windows
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Android mobile operating system that could permit attacks on apps running on the same device.
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Valeri: Robots Lending a Helping Hand to Build Planes
Researchers on the Validation of Advanced, Collaborative Robotics for Industrial Applications project are trying to incorporate robots into the building of airplanes...
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Beer Taps the Internet of Things
Industry-specific technology tracks how quickly kegs are drained and help purveyors charge for every last drop.
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Smartphones Set Out to Decipher a Cryptographic System
Researchers have developed an Android app to crack a cryptographic system by enabling thousands of smartphones to work together on the task.
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Looking to the Future of Data Science
The Association for Computing Machinery, a leading professional association in computer science, is holding its annual conference this week, focusing on what we’re...
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