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AI Could Transform the Science of Counting Crowds
The University of Central Florida has been developing artificial intelligence solutions to relieve crowd scientists from the task of manually counting heads.
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Medical, Scientific Image Analysis Vastly Improved By New Software
University of Missouri researchers have developed that very quickly and accurately analyzes any series of images.
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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private
A personalized news recommendation application collects data about the user to suggest relevant stories without sending any personal information to a remote server...
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App Improves Medication Adherence For Heart Stent Patients
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed software that helps heart patients with drug-eluting stents correctly take their medications.
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Your (social Media) Votes Matter
A recent study demonstrates how a single up/down vote on Reddit dictates the content users see on the site.
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D-Wave pgrade: How Scientists Are sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...
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US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search in Any Language
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the US Intelligence Community’s own science and technology research arm, has announced it is seeking...
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Brief Interventions Help Online Learners Persist With Coursework, Stanford Research Finds
Assuring learners from less-developed countries they belong and affirming their core values can help them succeed in massive open online courses, according to a...
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Smart Automation
Researchers at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...
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Your Android Device's Pattern Lock Can Be Cracked Within Five Attempts
Researchers have found attackers can crack Android's Pattern Lock security system within five attempts by using video and computer-vision software.
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AI Software Learns to Make AI Software
Several research organizations are working to create artificial intelligences that can in turn develop machine-learning software.
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Hipeac Vision Report Advocates Reinvention of Computing
The European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, or HiPEAC, on Monday published a report calling for "the reinvention of computing...
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Legal Battle Over Overseas Microsoft Data Could Be Headed For Supreme Court
A federal appeals court is letting stand a ruling in a closely watched case holding that Microsoft need not comply with a U.S. government demand for data stored...
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Noaa's Goes-16 Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for...
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Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized
Whether personally or professionally, Daniel Kronauer of Rockefeller University is the sort of biologist who leaves no stone unturned.
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Taming Data
A new big data management system aims to simplify the process of aggregating large datasets for analysis.
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The Internet Is Sick
The Mozilla Foundation's new Internet Health Report identifies obstacles that undermine entrepreneurship and democracy online.
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csf, Intel Join Forces to Develop Deep Learning Analytics For Healthcare
The University of California, San Francisco and Intel are using deep-learning techniques to power a scalable platform to deliver clinical decision support and predictive...
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The Road to Progress
Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.
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