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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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Neural Networks Don't nderstand What Optical Illusions Are
Researchers have found that machine vision systems cannot process optical illusions in the same way humans can.
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All Systems Go for Second-Ever Mission to Enter Mercury's Orbit
A European rocket is ready to launch the most ambitious mission ever taken towards Mercury, Earth's once-neglected sibling in the Solar System.
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An Evaluation of the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoffs of Neural Language Models
Researchers studying the accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs of neural language models have proposed a simple technique to recover some perplexity using negligible memory...
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Supercomputer Predicts Optical, Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials
Researchers used a supercomputer to predict the electrical and optical characteristics of semiconductors fashioned from layered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites...
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Google to Release DeepMind's StreetLearn for Teaching Machine Learning Agents to Navigate Cities
Google is preparing a November release of its DeepMind unit's StreetLearn dataset for training machine learning models to navigate cities without a map.
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Learning to se Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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pdate on Opportunity Rover after Martian Dust Storm
One month since increasing their commanding frequency, engineers have yet to hear from NASA's Opportunity rover.
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Mozilla's Ambitious Plan to Teach Coders Not to Be Evil
Several organizations last week jointly launched an academic contest to incorporate ethics into undergraduate computer science education.
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We’d Be Crippled by a Cyberattack on Our tilities
It's time we come up with a strategy to defend our nation from potentially crippling cyberattacks that would put states at the forefront of the fight.
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Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer at Age 65
Allen was a philanthropist and also the owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, and had a stake in Seattle's Sounders soccer team...
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World's Fastest Camera Can See Light Moving in Slo-Mo
Scientists from Caltech and the University of Quebec have developed the world's fastest camera, which is capable of capturing a record-breaking 10 trillion frames...
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Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse
Writer Bruce Schneier is a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Microsoft just made 60,000 of its patents open source
Apart from older Linux Kernel and Android patents, Microsoft's patent library includes upcoming technologies like LF Energy and HyperLedger.
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Riskiest Landing of Japan's Asteroid Mission Delayed ntil January
Touchdown of the Hayabusa2 mothership has been postponed because of unexpectedly rough terrain.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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The Pentagon's Push to Program Soldiers' Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.
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Just 36 Teachers Across .S. Graduated in 2016 Ready to Teach CS
U.S. universities graduated only 36 new teachers prepared to teach computer science in 2016, and only 35% of U.S. high schools teach the subject.
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From Rat Brains to Cancer Cells, T Professor Improves Imaging Techniques
The University of Texas' Chandrajit Bajaj is developing advanced imaging methods, including software that generates more dynamic images from neurons.
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AI Tool Automatically Reveals How to Write Apps That Drain Less Battery
A new tool uses artificial intelligence to determine if a specific application feature should be improved to drain less battery power from a mobile device.
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