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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Many Ways Lasers Help S See the World More Clearly
Think of lasers and what springs to mind?
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Google's Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results
Ask the Google search app "What is the fastest bird on Earth?," and it will tell you.
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Genevieve Bell: 'humanity's Greatest Fear Is About Being Irrelevant'
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
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Batman's Kitchen Teaches w Students How to Play Cybersecurity
Batman's Kitchen is providing University of Washington students the opportunity to learn about information security and practice their cybersecurity skills.
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Clemson Scientists nveil Software That Revolutionizes Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Modeling
Clemson University researchers have developed computational software for wildlife habitat connectivity modeling.
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Professor Develops Algorithm to Improve Online Mapping of Disaster Areas
University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers have developed an algorithm that indicates, following a disaster, which areas need detailed mapping first, which...
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Erich Bloch, IBM Pioneer Who Later Led National Science Foundation, Dies at 91
Bloch was the first U.S. National Science Foundation director to come from a business rather than academic background, and the first without a doctoral degree. ...
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Spy Chief Adds to Warnings of Russian Cyber Attacks on Germany
Germany's spy chief has warned that Russian hackers are pelting his country with disinformation that could undermine the democratic process, echoing concerns already...
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New Quantum States For Better Quantum Memories
Researchers at Austria's Technical University of Wien, in collaboration with Japan's NTT, are moving toward new quantum memory concepts using nitrogen atoms and...
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Google Deepmind Could Invent the Next Generation of AI By Playing Starcraft 2
The announcement at BlizzCon 2016 that met with the most muted response was arguably the most revolutionary.
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Network Operators Beef p Last Mile For Cord-Cutters
Consumers increasingly are bypassing traditional content providers to download content a la carte via broadband connection.
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Two Sigma Announces Public Launch of Halite, A.i. Coding Game
Halite creates an engaging game environment in which to learn, write, and visualize code in action.
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How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair
Cynthia Dwork is best known for inventing "differential privacy," a set of techniques that safeguard the privacy of individuals in a large database.
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German Spies "alarmed" Over Threat To Election From Fake News, Russians
An intelligence source told BuzzFeed News they fear 2017’s federal elections could see a repeat of the misinformation and hacking that disrupted the U.S. presidential...
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Google Warns Journalists and Professors: Your Account Is nder Attack
A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered.
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Telescope That 'ate Astronomy' Is on Track to Surpass Hubble
The next great space telescope spread its golden wings this month.
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Programmers Are Having a Huge Discussion About the nethical and Illegal Things They've Been Asked to Do
A response to a post that went viral, called "Code I’m Still Ashamed Of."
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Indium Selenide Takes on the Mantle of the New Wonder Material
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester?
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President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The 21 latest recipients of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom included Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper.
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