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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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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Opinion by Bruce Schneier, a security technologist who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
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A DNA Search Engine for Microbes
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute have developed a DNA search engine for microbial data.
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Mind-Controlled Robot Lets You Weld Metal Without sing Your Hands
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a robot that can follow mental instructions from its operator to weld metal.
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How Analytics are Making Peace Between Fishermen, Turtles
New predictive analytics technologies are helping researchers protect turtles, albatrosses, whales, and other endangered species from fishermen.
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Software That Can Automatically Detect Fake News
Researchers have developed a system that automatically analyzes social media posts and filters out fake news and disinformation.
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Argonne Researchers Develop Method to Reduce Quantum Noise
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed a technique for reducing the effects of "noise" in quantum information systems.
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Friendly Nurse or Nightmare-Inducing Machine? How Culture Programs Our Taste in Robots.
Slowly and silently, they glide across the floor wearing bright yellow dresses that look as though they were plucked from a haunted 1920s boarding school.
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research.
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MIT Robot Combines Vision, Touch to Learn Game of Jenga
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a robot that taught itself to play Jenga.
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Google Releases Dataset to Help AI Systems Spot Fake Audio Recordings
The Google News unit and artificial intelligence research division Google AI have released a speech database in an attempt to identify bogus audio recordings.
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British Military Invests £1M into Headsets that Create Hostile VR Environments for Soldiers Training
The British Army is testing virtual reality headsets that can combine virtual environments with physical objects for a mixed-reality experience.
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C Allows High-School Computer Science as Core Curriculum Credit
The University of California system will count high school computer science courses toward core curriculum prerequisites for admission to its nine universities....
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Moving the Needle on Cyber Norms
The Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace is working to establish principles that states, non-state actors, and the privacy industry should follow when...
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Eyes in the Skies
Privacy concerns arise around the New York Police Department's drone program.
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Germany to Restrict Facebook's Data Gathering Activities
Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its...
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The Ethical Dilemma Facing Silicon Valley’s Next Generation
Stanford has established itself as the epicenter of computer science, and a farm system for the tech giants. Following major scandals at Facebook, Google, and others...
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The CRISPR Machines that Can Wipe Out Entire Species
Charles Darwin had no idea what a gene was. If we dropped the father of evolution into 2019, the idea that humans can willfully alter the genes of an entire species...
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New 3D Printing Technique Creates Solid Objects sing Rays of Light
Researchers have created a three-dimensional printer that can generate whole objects at once, instead of printing them layer by layer.
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