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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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Clearview AI Does Well in Another Round of Facial Recognition Accuracy Tests
The company also performed well last month in a test of its ability to match two different photos of the same person.
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Tool Can Detect Precursor of Engine-Destroying Combustion Instability
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo University of Science (TUS) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have designed a tool for detecting a precursor of thermoacoustic...
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EU Pharmaceutical Giants Run Vulnerable Apps, Fail to Use Encryption in Login Forms
New research warns 80% of the European Union's top pharmaceutical companies are "critically exposed" to cyberattack due to poor security postures.
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Model Translates Heart Research Findings From Animals to Humans
Scientists have developed a predictive computer model that expresses animal cardiac research as human-specific insights.
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You Should See Her in a Crown. Now You Can See Her Face.
Joana Bruno at Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona digitally replicated the faces of 36 people buried at the ancient European settlement of La Almoloya. ...
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The Pentagon's $82 Million Super Bowl of Robots
Inside a three-year competition that raises the question: How long until humans are obsolete?
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Early Warning System Model Predicts Cancer Patients' Deterioration
A new machine learning predictive model for hospitalized cancer patients integrates heterogeneous data in electronic health records.
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Trouble at the Source
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.
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What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
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Using AI to Prevent Blood Clots, Strokes
A new artificial intelligence technique can identify possible atrial fibrillation, which can lead to blood clots and strokes.
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Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
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AI Behind Deepfakes May Power Materials Design Innovations
Researchers have trained a generative adversarial network to create refractory high-entropy alloys that can maintain their strength in ultra-high temperatures. ...
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High-Tech Approaches to America's Sewer Problem
U.S. cities and service contractors use flying drones, crawling robots, and remote-operated swimming machines to explore, diagnose, and fix municipal sewer systems...
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What's in the Water?
Researchers have mapped the global pathways of nitrogen and pathogens from human wastewater.
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AI Brings Power of NLP to African Languages
A neural network model developed by researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo enables computer-based analysis of text in 11 African languages.
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The Next Generation of AI-Enabled Cars Will Understand You
In-cabin sensors can help customize the passenger experience.
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First Global River Database Documents 40 Years of Change
A new database shows the movement of the river centerlines of the 48 most threatened deltas in the world over the past 40 years.
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Tracked Bottom-Crawling Robot Gathers Valuable Deep-Sea Data
The Benthic Rover II robot has spent seven years collecting deep-sea data 140 miles off California's coast.
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