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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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Speeding p Quality Control For Biologics
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
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Smart Machines Pick p the Pace
Massachusetts Institute of Technology principal research scientist Andrew McAfee says the pace of machine-learning advancement is often underestimated.
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Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI
Google has unveiled a new approach to machine learning in which neural networks are used to build better neural networks.
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Making Machines Make Sense
Researchers are working to imbue computing devices with sophisticated object recognition and tactile capabilities that could take computer sensing to an entirely...
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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New Computation Tools Enable Much Faster and Cheaper Product Development
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have developed faster, more accurate, and agile computation tools and methods.
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River Channels on Three Worlds Reveal a History of Shifting Landscapes
At this point, we've worked out the basics of the processes that produced the topography around us here on Earth.
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u.s. Top Court Tightens Patent Suit Rules in Blow to 'patent Trolls'
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent "trolls" to launch...
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Deep Learning Algorithm Rewrites Traditional Recipes For New Regions, Ingredients
A team of researchers says a new machine-learning algorithm can take a recipe and transform it into an alternative dietary style.
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Researchers Look to Add Statistical Safeguards to Data Analysis and Visualization Software
New software is designed to eliminate multiple hypothesis testing errors in interactive data exploration and visualization systems using real-time statistical safeguards...
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Microsoft Has a Plan to Add Dna Data to its Cloud
Microsoft Research plans to have a DNA-based data storage system functioning within a data center by 2020.
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Google Program Inspires Kids to Learn Coding
Google's Code in the Community Program aims to help 3,000 underprivileged children develop computational skills for possible technology careers.
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America’s Dangerous Internet Delusion
Despite enormous benefits, the Internet also encourages crime, global conflict, and economic disruption.
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Ready, Set, Go! Rematch of Man vs. Machine in Ancient Game
AlphaGo, Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence program, will compete against the Chinese world champion Go player Ke Jie in a three-game series.
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Your Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard
Snapchat knew it from the start, but in recent months Google and Facebook have all but confirmed it: The keyboard, slowly but surely, is fading into obscurity. ...
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In Memoriam Alain Colmerauer: 1941-2017
French computer scientist Alain Colmerauer passed away on May 15.
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Inside Russia's Social Media War on America
On March 2, a disturbing report hit the desks of U.S. counterintelligence officials in Washington.
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FCC Votes to Start Rolling Back Landmark Net Neutrality Rules
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to begin undoing a key decision from the Obama era that could relax regulations on Internet...
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Machine Learning Algorithms Re-Create City in 3D sing Only Image Data
Varcity is a new platform that collects massive amounts of image data of a city and uses algorithms to automatically create a three-dimensional model of it.
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