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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Technology Allows Spinal Cord Patients to Drive a NASCAR Race Car
Mechanics and electronics specialists collaborated to develop an adaptive auto that can be driven by quadriplegics.
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Mars Virtual Reality Software Wins NASA Award
A mixed-reality software that allows scientists and engineers to virtually walk on Mars recently received NASA's 2018 Software of the Year Award.
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Facebook Tackles Rising Threat: Americans Aping Russian Schemes to Deceive
When Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress last month about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault, a website called Right Wing News sprang...
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Supercharged Crime-Scene DNA Analysis Sparks Privacy Concerns
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...
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Cyber Tests Showed 'Nearly All' New Pentagon Weapons Vulnerable to Attack, GAO Says
Most of the U.S. Department of Defense's newest weapons systems are plagued by security issues, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women
Amazon discontinued an artificial intelligence recruiting tool its machine learning specialists developed to automate the hiring process because it was biased against...
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These Scientists May Be Your Next Members of Congress
A growing number of aspiring candidates for U.S. congressional offices have a background in science.
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HyQ Steps Across Gaps Despite Getting Yanked Around
Researchers used a convolutional neural network to reduce the amount of time the HyQ quadruped robot needs to plan its foot placement by several orders of magnitude...
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Forbes Releases Inaugural Top Women in Tech List in Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day 2018, Forbes issued its inaugural unranked list of Top Women in Technology.
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...
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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design
Although struggling with personal life, Conway made a breakthrough discovery that rewrote what engineers thought single-stream computer architecture might achieve...
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The Ick of AI That Impersonates Humans
Philip K. Dick was living a few miles north of San Francisco when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which envisioned a world where artificially intelligent...
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All Eyes on Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael plowed into the Florida panhandle Wednesday, Oct. 10, as a major Category 4 storm—the strongest hurricane ever to hit that region.
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Researchers Develop Novel Technique to Locate Robots, Soldiers in GPS-Challenged Environments
Scientists have developed an algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where global positioning systems are unavailable.
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A New Molecular Programming Language: CRN++
Researchers have created a new language for programming deterministic chemical kinetics in performing computations.
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Google, Facebook Team p on Artificial Intelligence Tech
Google and Facebook researchers are working together to make Facebook's open source PyTorch framework interoperate with Google's custom machine learning chips. ...
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What You Can't See Can Hurt You
Researchers have found homeowners will significantly alter their behavior to improve the air quality in their homes if presented with visualizations of how it changes...
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Sound Software for Fault Detection in Machinery
A European Union-funded research project has developed software that can analyze the sounds of industrial machinery to determine if they require maintenance.
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Tech Gives Bike Riders Some Spin
Apps and connectivity have improved bicycles for serious and casual riders.
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