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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computer Engineers Boost App Speeds By More Than 9%
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new method to boost the speed of computer applications by more than 9%.
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable.
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Computer Researcher to Congress: 'it's Possible' For Hackers to Alter Election
Hackers could influence the outcomes of November’s elections, a computer science professor who has demonstrated security weaknesses in voting machines told lawmakers...
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Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
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'missing Link' Found in the Development of Bioelectronic Medicines
Researchers have demonstrated that memristors could be the missing link in the development of implants that use signals from the brain to treat medical conditions...
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S Sharpens Surveillance of Crippling Solar Storms
In the fight to protect Earth from solar storms, the battle lines are drawn in space at a point 1.6 million kilometres away.
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Comet Crash: A Guide to Rosetta's Big Finale
The Rosetta comet orbiter will meet a sticky end on 30 September, but not before a finale that should see it gather the most detailed images yet of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—or...
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Quantum Computing a Step Closer to Reality
Australian National University researchers say they have taken another step toward creating quantum computers by stopping light in a new experiment.
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Students' Web App Seeks to Simplify, Modernize Voter Registration
Votemate is a new Web application that could make it easier for people to confirm they are registered to vote.
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Why Human Brains Hold the Key to Smarter Artificial Intelligence
The European Union-funded INSIGHT project has gained a new understanding of how people solve problems, which one day could lead to smarter robots.
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Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
Harvard University researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm to train a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents....
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Eavesdropping Prohibited
Researchers want to automate encryption so software developers can correctly integrate cryptographic protocols into applications that communicate over the Internet...
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.
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Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse
Microsoft is embarking on a major upgrade of its Azure systems.
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Selfie With a View on 'cybernetics and Systems Analysis'
Dmitry Zaitsev sacrifices his ego to expose computer science achievements in Ukraine.
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2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet Now Official Standards
New Ethernet standards are now finalized, making existing cabling as much as five time faster.
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Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles's leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might...
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Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
As we surf from website to website, we are being tracked—that's not news. What is news, revealed in a recent paper by researchers at Princeton University, is that...
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.
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