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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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Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium
The Computing Community Consortium on October 23-24 will host the "Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs Symposium."
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Internet Researchers Harnessed the Power of Algorithm to Find Hate Speech
Researchers have trained an algorithm to identify hate speech by comparing what differentiates text that includes hate speech from text that does not contain hate...
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The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them.
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How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?
Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today.
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Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030
A growing variety of stretchable polymers will help integrate electronics into medical implants, consumer products, and more.
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Mathematical Modeling For Better Designs and Simulations
Dublin City University professor Patricia Moore in Ireland says she tries "to make it easier for computers to solve simulation problems as efficiently and accurately...
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Driverless Cars Learn From Humans in Greenwich Project
Tests are underway in the London borough of Greenwich in the U.K. that could expedite the development of safer driverless vehicles under the government-funded Move_UK...
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Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy?
Psychologists are testing virtual reality systems as a therapeutic tool for phobias and disorders.
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Facebook Thinks the Most seful Digital Assistant Is the One That Can Read Minds
The head of Facebook's moonshot division says the company wants to use brain-computer interface technology to enable people to type with their minds.
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The Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
More than 10,000 female "cryptoanalysts" were enlisted by the U.S. Army and Navy to help crack Nazi codes and ensure the Allies' victory in World War II.
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Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain
"Here's the problem with artificial intelligence today," says David Cox.
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Reconstructing Cassini's Plunge Into Saturn
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science...
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How the Search For a 'death Ray' Led to Radar
You can trace the extent of our reliance on air travel to many inventions. The jet engine, perhaps, or the aeroplane itself. But sometimes inventions need other...
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O.k., Computer, Tell Me What This Smells Like
Our sense of smell is gloriously specific.
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Half the niverse's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe—protons, neutrons...
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The Race to Secure Voting Tech Gets an rgent Jumpstart
There is an urgent need to secure U.S. voting systems ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report by the Atlantic Council think tank and hacking...
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How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World For .s. Secrets
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around...
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The World's Oldest Scientific Satellite Is Still in Orbit
From his desk at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, space debris analyst Tim Flohrer keeps track of the 23,000 or so catalogued objects...
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Discovery and Innovation to Quicken With Supercomputer's $1-Million pgrade
A $1-million grant will help Clemson University's Palmetto Cluster supercomputer aid researchers in accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and technological...
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