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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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Google Teams p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
Google is collaborating with Oxford University researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning...
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Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance...
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Is the City of the Future Finally Here?
A presentation during the Argonne OutLoud series considered how computer technologies can help mitigate challenges associated with increased urbanization.
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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A Quantum World Arising from Many Ordinary Ones
The bizarre behaviour of the quantum world—with objects existing in two places simultaneously and light behaving as either waves or particles—could result from...
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Scientists Consider Repurposing Robots For Ebola
Robotics scientists nationwide are pondering an intriguing possibility: Might robotic technologies deployed in rescue and disaster situations be quickly repurposed...
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Researchers Take Big-Data Approach to Estimate Range of Electric Vehicles
North Carolina State University researchers say they have developed a more accurate way to determine how far electric vehicles can go before needing a recharge. ...
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Irish Researchers Develop New Tool to Protect Earth From Space Debris
In collaboration with the European Space Agency, researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have designed a risk assessment tool for the re-entry of spacecraft debris...
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Painting By the Numbers: Data Visualization
There is rising interest in digital visualization, which serves as a communication tool in areas ranging from hip hop to scientific collaboration.
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How Technology Is Helping Fight Ebola
A wide variety of technologies, from apps and software to big data and robots, are being employed to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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Oldest-Known Human Genome Sequenced
A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record—revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned...
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Agencies Bring Energy Modeling Out of the Lab
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a database and software to help building professionals manage energy upgrades.
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Open Surveillance
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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.s. Government Probes Medical Devices For Possible Cyber Flaws
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that...
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MIT Computer Scientists Can Predict the Price of Bitcoin
Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict the price of Bitcoin.
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Data Bank Struggles As Protein Imaging ps Its Game
Structural biology, the mapping of complex biological molecules such as proteins, is in the grip of a revolution.
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