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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Electric Motors Find New Roles in Robots, Ships, Cars, and Microgrids
About 40% of electric power generated is used to drive motors, and that figure is expected to grow.
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Turning Your Living Room Into a Wireless Charging Station
A panel could one day remotely charge smartphones, tablets, and other devices within its line of sight.
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.
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Computer Vision Leader Fei-Fei Li on Why AI Needs Diversity
As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly are deployed to meet industrial and personal needs, the field will need to address its lack of ethnic and gender...
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Flying Drones Could Soon Recharge While Airborne With New Technology
Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated a highly efficient method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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Study Finds 'lurking Malice' in Cloud Hosting Services
Up to 10% of the repositories held by cloud hosting services have been compromised, according to a newly released study.
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It Ain't Me, Babe: Researchers Find Flaws In Police Facial Recognition Technology
Nearly half of American adults have been entered into law enforcement facial recognition databases, despite problems with the accuracy of the technology.
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Women in Computing to Decline to 22% By 2025, Study Warns
New research warns the number of women in the computing workforce will decline if nothing is done to encourage more to study computer science.
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Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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Creating 3D Hands to Keep S Safe and Increase Security
Researchers say without a lifelike three-dimensional model to test and calibrate fingerprint scanners, there is no consistent way to determine their accuracy.
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Typing While Skyping Could Compromise Privacy
Researchers have found a security breach in which keystroke sounds can be recorded during a Skype voice or video call and later reassembled as text.
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AI Experts Weigh in on the White House Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence experts stress the need for clarity around certain economic and safety ramifications of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Chinese Researchers Develop Algorithms For Smart Energy Grid
Scientists at Northeastern University in China have proposed a way to distribute energy similarly to how the Internet operates.
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Webcams sed to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.
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Designing the Future Internet
Connecting many smart objects to the Internet will result in an enormous boost in online traffic, which one researcher aims to make manageable with a network redesign...
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What Iarpa Knows About Your Canceled Dinner Reservation
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is running several projects examining how crowdsourced data could be used to predict specific events.
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Here's How Young People Decide When They're Drunk 'enough,' According to Math
Mathematical models developed by engineers at Ohio State University have enabled colleagues to explain the factors that drive alcohol consumption among young people...
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