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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Learns to Predict Human Behavior From Videos
A computer vision algorithm developed by Columbia Engineering researchers can intuitively predict human interactions and body language in video.
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Japan's In-Home Robot Experiment Short Circuits
A lack of demand prompted Japan's SoftBank Robotics Group to cease manufacturing the Pepper humanoid robot in August 2020, the company said this week.
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Scientists Mine the Rich Seam of Body Wearable Motion Sensors
Computer scientists at the University of Bath in the U.K. found that conductive seams in clothing, when accurately positioned, can be used to identify subtle movements...
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Meet the Scientist Teaching AI to Police Human Speech
Alexis Conneau's work has helped Facebook and Google build artificial intelligence systems that can understand dozens of languages with startling accuracy.
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Blood Test That Finds 50 Types of Cancer Accurate Enough to Be Rolled Out
Researchers found that a blood test developed using a machine learning algorithm is accurate in detecting more than 50 types of cancer.
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Engineering Additional Creativity
Can artificial intelligence augment human creativity in writing?
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AI Breakthrough in Premature Baby Care
A hybrid neural network can accurately forecast premature babies' individual mortality risk in order to better guide their care.
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Using ML to Build Maps That Give Smarter Driving Advice
Scientists used machine learning to develop an automatic mapping service that can enhance traffic management with greater intelligence.
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Linux Foundation Creates Standards for Voice Technology with Major Partners
The Linux Foundation and partners Target, Microsoft, Veritone, Schwarz Gruppe, Wegmans Food Markets, and Deutsche Telekom, created the Open Voice Network.
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Bank of Israel Testing Ethereum Tech in Digital Shekel Trial
The Bank of Israel is testing Ethereum's blockchain technology as part of a new internal digital shekel trial.
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Security Robots Expand Across U.S., with Few Tangible Results
Concrete proof that security robots reduce crime is lacking, despite wider deployment by U.S. government agencies and the private sector.
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Intelligent Carpet Gives Insight into Human Poses
A new tactile sensing carpet assembled from pressure-sensitive film and conductive thread is able to calculate human poses without cameras.
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Musical Chairs? Swapping Seats Could Reduce Orchestra Aerosols
Researchers used a computer model to determine whether rearranging musicians could significantly reduce aerosol buildup on the stage of a concert hall.
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ML Methods Could Improve Environmental Predictions
New process- or knowledge-guided machine learning techniques can predict flow and temperature in river networks more accurately even when data is scarce.
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Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' on Display with Missing Figures Restored by AI
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands used artificial intelligence to restore missing parts of Rembrandt’s "The Night Watch."
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NASA Struggles to Restore Aging Payload Computer on Hubble Space Telescope
NASA may have to resort to the backup system.
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Meteorite-Hunting Drones Could Help Find Freshly Fallen Space Rocks
A team of scientists used drones and machine learning to try to find just-landed meteorites.
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Developers are Fans of Blockchain, but Most Have Not Used it Much at Work
A survey finds that most people are interested in Ethereum, but only 24% of surveyed developers have built anything with blockchain.
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