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Learning to Attack the Cyberattackers Can't Happen Fast Enough
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute aims to expand the boundaries of technology and protect people when that technology or its users...
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Christiana Care Honored for Innovative se of Virtual Reality During Chemotherapy
The Christiana Care Health System was awarded the 2018 Magnet Prize from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for its use of virtual reality technology to improve...
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Disaster Relief Is Dangerously Broken. Can AI Fix It?
The use of artificial intelligence in disaster relief is gaining favor as weather-related catastrophes grow in frequency and severity.
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Playing Catch-p, Germany Throws Money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...
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World’s First Automated Volcano Forecast Predicts Mount Etna's Eruptions
Smoke filled the cabin as the Boeing 747 plunged towards snow-covered mountains in southern Alaska. All four engines had shut down, and it took the pilots eight...
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New Deep Knowledge AI System Could Resolve Bottlenecks in Drug Research
A new system can predict the binding of biosequences in seconds and potentially reduce bottlenecks in drug research.
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The Big Spenders in Research and Development
Global technological research and development spending will top $2 trillion this year, according to R&D Magazine's 2018 Global R&D Funding Forecast.
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FNecole: Social-Emotional Learning Meets Computer Science and Digital Literacy
A European company has combined social-emotional learning with computer science into an elementary education digital curriculum that may soon be offered to U.S....
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What Complex Technology Can Learn From Simple Ants
Ants' pheromone-laying and -following behavior has inspired an algorithm that uses artificial ants in a virtual environment to solve optimization problems.
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To Keep Old Growth Out of New Shirts, Fashion Turns to Technology
Clothing brands collaborated with a Canadian nonprofit to build a website that can identify forests that should be kept pristine, to make supply chains less ecologically...
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FDA Approves First HoloLens Augmented Reality System for Surgical se
The technology projects two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional 2D, 3D and 4D images of patients interactively by overlaying them onto the patient's body...
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Scientists Improve Smartphone Battery Life by p to 60%
Researchers in the U.K. have developed a way to improve the battery life of mobile devices, by minimizing the power consumption of mobile apps by up to 60%.
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AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect
Scientists warn that hackers could weaponize artificial intelligence to conceal and accelerate cyberattacks and potentially escalate their damage.
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NASA's ARIA Maps California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest...
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Pitt Researcher ses Video Games to nlock New Levels of AI
The University of Pittsburgh's Daniel Jiang has developed algorithms that learn decision strategies in complex and uncertain environments, and tests them on video...
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Researchers Rev p Review of Peer Review
Although the global scientific community is becoming more diverse, developing ways to make certain peer reviewers are true "peers" is lagging behind.
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials
Startup Kebotix has created software that learns material chemistry from models of molecules with known properties in order to design novel compounds.
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Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday.
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Social Media Companies Grapple with New Forms of Political Misinformation
Social media companies are struggling to contain new forms of political misinformation on their platforms that bubbled up during this year's midterm elections. ...
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