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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'new Rembrandt' Unveiled in Amsterdam
A portrait titled "the Next Rembrandt" is the end-product of an 18-month project that brought together data scientists, developers, engineers, and art historians...
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These Are the Cities Where Tech Workers Live Largest
Annual data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics demonstrates the value of an education in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
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Autofocusing Contact Lenses? Today's Chip Research Peeks Into Tomorrow's Gadgets
Belgian design organization Imec is expanding into new territory with its latest computer chip technology research projects.
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The Robot Will See You Now: U of T Experts on the Revolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The University of Toronto hosted a panel discussion Tuesday on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
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The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets
Demand for chatting virtual assistants and other artificial intelligence products is creating favorable job prospects for writers, poets, comedians, and others. ...
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The Detectives Watching You from Space
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...
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Mysterious Gravitational Tug on Orbiter May Help Find Planet Nine
The hunt is on to find "Planet Nine"—a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size—that scientists think could be lurking...
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Apps Help People with Autism Speak
Smartphones and tablets make it easier for people with disabilities to communicate, and for others to communicate with them.
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IBM Wants to Implant Fake Brains in Real Brains to Prevent Seizures
Talk about neural networking.
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Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
Take a three year-old to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book.
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w Robot Capable of Helping Patients With Physical Therapy Regimen
The University of Wyoming's Debbie Kretzchmar and her husband James are training a robot called Baxter to function as a coach for patients undergoing physical therapy...
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Composing Musical Portraits Through a Computer
North Carolina State University professor Rodney Waschka takes data from pictures, book covers, audio, and other sources to make a portrait of a person.
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t Professors Collaborate, Improve Robot Soccer Team
University of Texas researchers are working on applying aspects of the human cerebellum, the part of the brain that governs coordination, to a robot soccer team...
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First-Ever 3d Printed Robots Made of Both Solids and Liquids
Researchers have developed "printable hydraulics," a technique for three-dimensional printing of robots involving simultaneously printing solid and liquid materials...
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White House Declines to Support Encryption Legislation Sources
The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law...
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Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab on April 4 announced Data USA, designed to make it easier to sift through vast troves of government information...
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Forget Apple vs. the Fbi: Whatsapp Just Switched on Encryption For a Billion People
For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter...
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ltimate Test
It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...
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Opportunity's Devilish View from on High
From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.
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