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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Uta Researchers Use Text-mining Techniques to Improve Market Intelligence on Potential Mergers and Acquisitions of Startups in the High-Tech Sector
A new technique uses big data analytics and test-mining methods to improve market intelligence and explain potential mergers and acquisitions of high-technology...
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Facebook Plans to Beam Internet to Backwaters With Lasers
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas.
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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Minecraft Is a Testing Ground For Human-AI Collaboration
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.
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Programming Life
With a new programming language, almost anyone create a DNA-encoded circuit.
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How Mountains Obscured By Venus's Clouds Reveal Themselves
Colossal clouds cloak the surface of Venus, making it difficult for researchers to probe its secrets.
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Human Brain Mapped in nprecedented Detail
Think of a spinning globe and the patchwork of countries it depicts: such maps help us to understand where we are, and that nations differ from one another.
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Nasa's Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.
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Eu Data Protection Law May End the nknowable Algorithm
A new law to be enacted European Union-wide in 2018 could require companies to clarify their decision-making algorithms to avoid unlawful discrimination.
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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots' Stupidity
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent.
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To Catch a Wireless Thief
Crowdsourcing programs one day could help authorities track down unauthorized radio bandwidth and malicious radio disruptions.
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Organic Computers Are Coming
Researchers have discovered a molecule which, they say, could stimulate the development of organic electronics.
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More Female International Students Pursue STEM Degrees at .s. niversities
More female international students are attending U.S. universities to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math degrees.
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Will Ecole 42 Crack the Code of Learning?
A French institution may be a window into the future of coding education.
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Learning to Trust a Self-Driving Car
On a clear morning in early May, Brian Lathrop, a senior engineer for Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory, was in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S...
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Having Stomach Troubles? Try Swallowing an Origami Robot
Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.
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Researchers Build a Crawling Robot From Sea Slug Parts and a 3D Printed Body
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built "biohybrid" robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach.
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Inside Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Engine Room
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....
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ser-Controlled System Makes It Possible to Instantly Revoke Access to Files Hosted on Internet Cloud Servers
Access to cloud-hosted data can be controlled in real time by securing data files with a proxy key.
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