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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Maryland Test Confirms Drones Can Safely Deliver Human Organs
University of Maryland researchers have tested organ delivery via aerial drone.
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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Brain-Computer Interface Lets Paralyzed People Control Tablet Devices
A brain-computer interface has enabled three people suffering from tetraplegia to control a commercial tablet computer with their thoughts.
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A Smartphone, New Software Could Help Save Infants Born Preterm
Duke University researchers have developed an automated method for determining the gestational age of newborns, which could be crucial in saving the lives of premature...
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Breaking the Code: Program Trains Young Adults for Computer Industry
A program sponsored by the Resilient Coders nonprofit is training young adults of color in the Boston area to break into the computer industry.
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Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence
Google researchers have unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can complete English sentences with human-like accuracy.
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Catching Whisky Fakers
Researchers across Europe are applying multiple methods to combat food and beverage counterfeiting.
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How Cheap Labor Drives China's A.I. Ambitions
Some of the most critical work in advancing China's technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the middle of the country's heartland, far from the...
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Research Teams se Summit Supercomputer to Win Gordon Bell Prize
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have jointly been awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding work...
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AI Is Watching Employee Expenses
AppZen has developed an artificial intelligence program that can identify dubious work expense claims and educate employees about travel and expense policies.
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Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points...
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Harvard Wants to School Congress About AI
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...
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The Snowden Legacy: What's Changed, Really?
Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the basis for a series of revelations that...
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How AI Is Changing Wildlife Research
A software program developed by the conservation technology nonprofit Wild ME automatically identifies individual animals by their unique coat patterns or other...
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Technology for the Deaf
Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?
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This Company Is Helping Build China's Panopticon. It Won't Stop There
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Who's Behind That Beard?
Kurt Luther, working with a team at Virginia Polytechnic and State Institute, has launched Civil War Photo Sleuth, a Web platform that applies facial recognition...
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Largest Overhaul of Scientific nits Since the French Revolution Wins Approval
In the biggest overhaul of the international system of units since 1875, countries have voted to redefine four basic units of measurement—the ampere, the kilogram...
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Amazon, Google Poised for Race to Hire High-Tech Talent
Amazon and Google are respectively planning to recruit Microsoft C#- and Java-savvy engineers and Python users in a fierce competition for technology talent.
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