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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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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars
Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual: The light from a galaxy had...
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The Secret Science That Rules Crowds
Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred in 2017 include incidents in an Angolan...
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SC ISI Researchers Develop Computational Methods to ncover Hidden Trends in Human Behavior
Researchers have mined sensor data collected from volunteers to discover hidden trends in well-being, academic performance, and behavior.
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Not Even AI Can Make Total Sense of a Privacy Policy
A new tool uses artificial intelligence to crawl 7,000 of the Web's most popular sites to flag privacy policy issues of potential concern to specific users.
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These Micro-Robots Do the Breaststoke
Researchers placed magnetized spheres into a solution and subjected them to an "eccentric magnetic field" so they self-assemble with smaller spheres, attached by...
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DevOps Momentum in the Enterprise
The notion of unifying software development and software operation is catching on.
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IARPA Launches Challenge to Improve AV-Captured Imagery
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity recently announced the UG2 Prize Challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles, gliders, and ground data entries...
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Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to nlock Phones
Federal law enforcement officials are renewing a push for a legal mandate that tech companies build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access...
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Making Monitors Brighter: Researchers in Bayreuth Discover a Way to Control the Color of OLEDs
Researchers have discovered how the spatial structure of conjugated polymers can be used to control the colors of organic light-emitting diodes and increase the...
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.S. Children Now Draw Female Scientists More Than Ever
Researchers have found U.S. children now depict scientists as female more than ever.
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At First Blush, You Look Happy—or Sad, or Angry
Researchers have discovered a previously undocumented connection between the central nervous system and emotional expression in the face.
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Earwigs and the Art of Origami
Researchers have developed multifunctional origami structures that emulate the framework of an earwig's wing, and fabricated them as three-dimensional printed objects...
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Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers...
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Researchers Find Leaky Apps Put Privacy at Risk
Social media platforms, web browser extensions, and mobile platforms can leak user information, threatening user privacy.
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Always Out of Balance
Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.
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Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.
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Artificial (Emotional) Intelligence
Enabled by advances in computing power and neural networks, machines are getting better at recognizing and dealing with human emotions.
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For the .S. and China, a Technology Cold War That's Freezing Over
A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier.
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