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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Can We Open the Black Box of Ai?
Dean Pomerleau can still remember his first tussle with the black-box problem.
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Making Construction Sites Safer
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany want to make construction sites safer with interactive virtual reality training courses.
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Infosys Foundation sa, Acm, and Csta Announce Awards For Teaching Excellence in CS
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Infosys Foundation announced the rollout of the Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science.
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3D-Printed Robots With Shock-Absorbing Skins
Researchers have developed a new technique for three-dimensionally printing soft materials.
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Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning pgrade
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.
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Google Builds a Robotic Hive-Mind Kindergarten
How many robots does it take to open a door?
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Even with Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are...
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Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life
Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America.
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The Problem With Google's 'star Trek' Computer
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer...
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How to Steal an AI
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...
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Why Apple Can Be Forced to Turn Logs of Your Imessage Contacts Over to Police
When a user sends someone a message through Apple's iMessage feature, Apple encrypts that message between Apple devices so that only the sender and recipient can...
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...
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White House to Bolster STEM Education, Close Skills Gap
The Obama administration has launched a new advanced placement computer science course as part of an interdisciplinary approach to improve STEM education for underrepresented...
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...
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Building a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Power-Efficient Cloud
The European Union-funded CLOUDLIGHTNING project seeks to construct a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
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Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms
Machine-learning systems taught interesting patterns from data and documents fed into them could also pick up gender stereotypes from those sources.
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Iarpa to Develop Early-Warning System For Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a multi-year initiative to create technologies that could provide early warning of cyberattacks...
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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...
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Hackers Infect Army of Cameras, Dvrs For Massive Internet Attacks
Attackers used an army of hijacked security cameras and video recorders to launch several massive internet attacks last week, prompting fresh concern about the...
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