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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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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You
The Common Business-Oriented Language (Cobol) remains the most prevalent programming language in the financial services industry worldwide.
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Opportunity Emerges in a Dusty Picture
NASA still hasn't heard from the Opportunity rover, but at least we can see it again.
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Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays
In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.
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Transient Electronics Take Shape
Advances in materials science and chemistry are leading to self-destructing circuits and transient electronics, which could impact many fields.
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The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?
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A New Way to Capture the Brain's Electrical Symphony
Biophysicist Adam Cohen was strolling around San Francisco, California, in 2010, when a telephone call caught him by surprise. "We have a signal," said the caller...
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Brown Researchers Teach Computers to See Optical Illusions
Brown University researchers have developed a neural network model that can be deceived by optical illusions.
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Scientists se Light to Control Nanobots
Researchers have discovered a physical phenomenon in how semiconductor nanoparticles interact with light when under the influence of an electric field.
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Financial Services Firms Battle Cyberthreats
The growing number of cybercrimes, combined with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, means the financial services sector faces higher security costs, greater...
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Capitalizing on Sleep-Wake Cycle Can Drastically Increase Digital Ad Profits From Social Media, Study Shows
A new study has found that digital content platforms can increase their traffic from social media by aligning their posting schedules with target audiences' sleep...
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The S Push to Boost 'Quantum Computing'
A race by U.S. tech companies to build a new generation of powerful "quantum computers" could get a $1.3 billion boost from Congress, fueled in part by lawmakers' fear...
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Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Saturn's moon Titan.
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Putting Underused Smart Devices to Work
DisCoEdge is a new system that aims to transform the concept of device ownership to improve current utilities and create new services.
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Over 2,000 European AI Experts Join Hands to Challenge .S., China in Artificial Intelligence
About 2,100 artificial intelligence researchers from 29 European countries have announced a joint research alliance.
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Machine Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
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Meet the Winner of Robotics' World Cup
A two-legged robot developed at the University of Bonn in Germany won the soccer World Cup for adult-size robots this summer in Montreal, Canada.
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Women Tech Hiring Sees Minuscule Growth, Short of Hopes
Women were represented in 24% of technical roles this year, with growth of 1.09% over last year, according to an AnitaB.org survey. About 13% of technical roles...
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What China Can Teach the .S. About Artificial Intelligence
Visionary research is no longer the most important element of progress.
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Two Japanese Robots Are Now Happily Hopping on an Asteroid
More than 24 hours after they were released by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft to fly down to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, the Japanese Space Agency has finally...
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