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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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Building a Better Battery
How researchers are improving energy storage devices for power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind.
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Coffee Farmers Bet on Blockchain to Boost Business
A report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says blockchain technology could address challenges faced by smallholder coffee farmers.
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ETH Zurich nveils the Future
Looking ahead to 2050 in electronics, robotics, and new materials.
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For Gamers With Disabilities, Creative Controllers Open Worlds
Erin Hawley grew up immersed in video games, progressing from Pong on the Atari 2600 to Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis to Tomb Raider on the Sony PlayStation...
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Researchers, Scared by Their Own Work, Hold Back 'Deepfakes for Text' AI
OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machine learning system called Generative Pre-trained...
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These Android Apps Have Been Tracking You, Even When You Say Stop
International Computer Science Institute researchers estimated that about 17,000 Android apps collect identifying information.
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The AI That Can Write Fake News Stories From Handful of Words
The OpenAI research group has demonstrated artificial intelligence that can compose authentic-looking fake news articles from a few fragments of information.
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Renewable Energy Generation With Kites and Drones
Researchers have developed software for analyzing energy-generation systems based on kites and drones.
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Call to Ban Killer Robots in Wars
A scientific coalition is urging a ban on the development of weapons governed by artificial intelligence.
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Is That a Robot? Dr. Bear Bot Helps Care for Kids at Local Hospital
Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., is the first pediatric hospital to deploy a remote-monitoring virtual liaison robot in its cardiac intensive...
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The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know
The College Board came up with a surprising conclusion about keys to success for college and life. By Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Columnist.
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Scientist Warns Against Discoveries Made With AI
Inaccurate findings are being made in some areas of biomedical research.
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Farmworker vs Robot
Both human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic...
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NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of niverse
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy's...
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The S Cannot Crush s, Says Huawei Founder
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
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The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
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Gravitational-Wave Observatory LIGO Set to Double Its Detecting Power
Spotting gravitational waves is due to become an almost hourly event in the next decade. Starting around 2023, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...
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An AI that Writes Convincing Prose Risks Mass-Producing Fake News
Here's some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on the United States after Donald Trump accidentally fired a missile in the air.
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Girls Get Tech. They Just Need Others to Believe It.
A survey on the use of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and gaming devices found girls on equal footing with boys in terms of technology, or exceeding them in some...
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