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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Novel Hybrid av That May Change the Way People Operate Drones
U-Lion is a novel hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle that can take off and land vertically in the manner of a helicopter, yet cruise horizontally like an airplane. ...
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New Quantum Gadget Could Make Contactless Payment More Secure
Researchers have developed a prototype gadget that transmits secret quantum keys to encrypt data sent from a mobile device to a payment terminal.
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Scanners Can Be Hijacked to Perpetrate Cyberattacks
Researchers have found a typical office scanner can be infiltrated and an organization's network compromised through it..
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Computers Learn to Cooperate Better Than Humans
Computers have for the first time trained themselves to cooperate in games in which the goal is to achieve the best possible outcome for all players.
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Protecting Web sers' Privacy
Splinter is a new encryption system that disguises users' database queries so they reveal no private information.
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...
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Nasa Tests Observing Capability on Hawaii's Coral Reefs
NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs.
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
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Can Tech Speed p Emergency Room Care?
The next frontier in digital health may be one of the most unlikely: the emergency room.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Target Chem Code For Knights Landing
Researchers are helping computational chemists prepare to compute efficiently on next-generation exascale machines.
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Toward Printable, Sensor-Laden 'skin' For Robots
Researchers believe three-dimensional printing of flexible electronics integrating sensors and processing circuitry is key to bulk manufacturing of a robot "skin...
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Machine Learning Lets Scientists Reverse-Engineer Cellular Control Networks
Researchers are using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Stampede supercomputer to create tadpoles with pigmentation never before seen in nature.
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Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
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Google's AI Explosion in One Chart
Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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These AI Bots Created Their Own Language to Talk to Each Other
OpenAI last week disclosed new research detailing the training of artificial intelligence bots to generate their own shared language.
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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever
On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the...
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Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer
Cells are basically tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly.
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People Remain Calm as the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests
University at Buffalo researchers found despite some violent acts, most people will be helpful to others as the world ends.
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New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
Researchers have developed an intelligent routing algorithm designed to minimize the occurrence of spontaneous traffic jams across a roadway network.
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