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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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New Technology Sparks More Worry for Black, Hispanic Workers
A new survey found Black and Hispanic workers are more concerned about how they will be impacted by new technology in the workplace than white or Asian workers....
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Improved Prosthetic Hand Has Lighter Touch, Easy Grip
Researchers have improved a commercially developed, three-dimensional printed robotic prosthetic arm, allowing an amputee to grasp his wife's hand and "feel" her...
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Johannesburg Ransomware Attack Leaves City Without Power
South Africa's financial capital, Johannesburg, has been hit by a ransomware attack that left some of its residents without electricity.
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Phone Movement Predicts Personality Types
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
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Famous Scottish Reformation Church Virtually Reconstructed After 500 years
Researchers combined computer technology with historical research to create a virtual reconstruction of how Scotland's St. Andrews Cathedral looked just before...
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Exclusion in STEM Classrooms Lead to Lower Graduation Rates for Minority Students: UT Study
Black and Latinx students are more likely to leave science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college because of obstacles they face that their white...
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FaceApp Lets You 'Age' a Photo by Decades. Does It Also Violate Your Privacy?
Russia-based Wireless Lab's FaceApp recently saw a significant boost in popularity as celebrities used the app's age filter to provide realistic glimpses of what...
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AI Can Lead to Lower Dentist Bills
Dental support organizations are starting to use artificial intelligence to analyze X-ray images and automate certain steps in common procedures.
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li: The Benevolent Scientist
"Now we have a new generation of women professors. But this is far from enough."
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'Anonymized' Data Can Never Be Totally Anonymous, says Study
Researchers have developed a model to estimate how easy it would be to deanonymize an arbitrary dataset.
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With $1 Billion from Microsoft, an AI Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain
Microsoft has made a $1-billion investment in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab created by Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2015.
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Knight Foundation Invests $50 Million in Research on Tech's Impact on Democracy
The nonprofit John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will spend $50 million to fund research at 11 universities on how social media and technology impacts democracy...
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Computers Are the New Basketball Coaches
Professional basketball teams are starting to use computers and advanced data analytics to help perfect players' jump shots.
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The Algorithm That Changed Quantum Machine Learning
A college student discovered a classical computing algorithm that experts overlooked. It promises to change both classical and quantum machine learning.
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I Don't Understand My Car
Self-driving cars will need good communication skills.
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What Makes a Robot Likable?
Interactions with robotics teach us more about people.
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Artificial Skin Can Sense 1,000 Times Faster Than Human Nerves
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed artificial skin containing physical sensors that can detect pressure, bending, and temperature...
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Microsoft Quantum Algorithm Boosts Medical Imaging
Microsoft and Case Western Reserve University researchers have enhanced the speed and quality of medical imaging with an algorithm designed to work on a future...
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