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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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Major Payment Company: 'fewer and Fewer se Cases' For Bitcoin Payments
Stripe is one of the most popular ways for small online organizations to accept credit card payments. And in 2014 it became one of the first major payment processors...
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Trust Me, I'm a Robot
In an interview, Ayanna Howard discusses her work directing the Georgia Institute of Technology's Human-Automation Systems Lab.
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Drones Learn to Navigate Autonomously By Imitating Cars and Bicycles
The DroNet algorithm enables drones to fly by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments.
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Coders Are Shifting to Silicon Valley-Backed Programming Languages
Developers are planning to focus on languages created and popularized by Silicon Valley technology companies, according to HackerRank's 2018 Developer Skills Report...
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New Autonomous Car Can Handle Snow and Ice
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have developed a self-driving vehicle designed to maneuver in rough and icy conditions.
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Students se Sandbox to Demonstrate Gravity
Gravbox is a new augmented reality sandbox developed to help explain how gravity affects objects when they travel through a certain environment.
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Mosaic's Birthday: 25 Years of the Modern Web
Twenty-five years ago, the first release of Mosaic Web browser appeared and the Web, as you know it, began.
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Intel Halts Some Chip Patches as the Fixes Cause Problems
The chipmaker's updates were meant to fix the Meltdown and Spectre design flaws, but have been causing computers to unexpectedly reboot.
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Guarding Against the Possible Spectre in Every Machine
The recent disclosure of the Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities is symptomatic of most technology firms following poor supply-chain precautions, says one...
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New Defenses Sought Against Gps Spoofing Attacks
Researchers have received $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to fortify computers and devices against cyberattacks associated with timekeeping...
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Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists
Computer science professor Megan Squire has created an array of programs that monitor approximately 400,000 accounts of white nationalists on Facebook and elsewhere...
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The War Over the Value of Personal Data
In a world increasingly dependent on turning personal data into profits, it is unclear how much that data is actually worth.
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Designing Customizable Self-Folding Swarm Robots
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
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Cartoon Clinicians: Precursors of Virtual Therapy?
Soldiers in one study were more open with a virtual character about post-traumatic stress symptoms than with human doctors.
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Trash Talk From an AI Could Help Humans Cooperate Better
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help artificial intelligence and humans learn to cooperate.
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Professor Designs Algorithms to Make Robots Better Collaborators
Researchers are developing algorithms that enable groups of robots to make good decisions despite inherent communication delays in information sharing.
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New Blueprint For Converging Hpc, Big Data
A group of high-performance computing experts has released a report as a blueprint for aligning computational infrastructures.
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New Research Adds Physiology to Computer Models
Researchers contend that without a physiological complement, a computer program modeling the mind would just be a brain in a vat.
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