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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Open Repository For 'dark Data'
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding an effort to develop a one-stop shop to house researchers' data sets after they publish their papers.
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3D Printed Electronics Are Here, Researchers Say
Researchers have demonstrated a method for three-dimensional printing of electrical components.
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Inside Nasa's Version of the Holodeck
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to start testing a virtual environment to help astronauts deal with isolated and confined environments...
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Iarpa Funds Program to Predict Next Wave of Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a program to develop a framework for coupling threat indicators with external information sources...
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the gliest Corners of the Internet
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...
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Web 2.0 (and Beyond): Developing the Next Generation of Connectivity
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Network Innovations is a network established to test next-generation networking concepts.
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Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Vibrant Pluto Stuns Scientists
They are 5 billion kilometres from the Sun in the dim, far-flung outskirts of the Solar System, but Pluto and its large moon Charon turn out to be astonishingly...
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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Camp Gives Middle School Girls Hands-On Experience in Engineering
The University of California, Berkeley's Girls in Engineering summer camps are aimed at narrowing the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and math...
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Siting Wind Farms More Quickly, Cheaply
Researchers say they have developed a statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques.
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Security Researchers Find a Way to Hack Cars
Security researchers plan to demonstrate a method to hack into and control vehicles at the Black Hat and Def Con hacking conferences in August.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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After 85-Year Search, Massless Particle with Promise for Next-Generation Electronics Discovered
Princeton University researchers have confirmed the existence of Weyl fermions, which could permit a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics...
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...
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Nfl Teams Train Qbs with Vr
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
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Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering...
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