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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Meraculous: Deciphering the 'book of Life' With Supercomputers
A team of researchers has streamlined and accelerated genome assembly from a months-long process to minutes via the development of a new tool.
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Quest For Buried Knowledge Continues With New Computer Software Tool
A new computer software tool will enable scholars to read the writings of ancient scrolls without having to unroll or open them.
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Penn Engineers Show How 'perfect' Materials Begin to Fail
A new project describes the cause of defect-free material breakage, which can cascade into failure.
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Korean robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize
A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research...
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Computer Invents New Scientific Theory Without Human Help For the First Time
The mystery of how flatworms regenerate has been solved independently by a computer.
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Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?
Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world's most complicated mechanical timepieces.
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MIT Cheetah Robot Lands the Running Jump
A robotic cheetah built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers is now the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Developer Tracks Real-Time Locations of Facebook Messenger sers
Marauders Map is a browser extension that allows users to discover the identity of Facebook Messenger users, their location, and previous movements.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation.
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Rat Brain Cells Power a Computer
Researchers have shown cultured rat brain cells can read signals from a robot, process the problem of obstacles, and give an appropriate, accurate solution.
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Self-Programming Machines Next Phase of Computer Science: Wozniak
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said computers that learn in unsupervised ways and do not need to be told what to do in advance is the next phase of computer science...
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Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out
Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the living room.
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Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred From A.i. Competition
A group of researchers at the Chinese web services company Baidu have been barred from participating in an international competition for artificial intelligence...
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Rumor-Detector Software Ids Disputed Claims on Twitter
University of Michigan professor Qiaozhu Mei and colleagues recently unveiled software that can quickly detect rumors on Twitter.
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Disaster Droids Face Off in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.
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Qosmos: Cognitive Radio Technology Optimises se of Scarce Spectrum
The European QoSMOS project addresses the problems of scarcity and cost commonly associated with the need for more radio spectrum.
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Global Climate Model Helps Untangle Complex Webs of Cause and Effect
The U.S. Department of Energy is pushing climate researchers to integrate observational science and scientific models.
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Smart Microgrids to Help Data Centers, Farm Communities se Locally Produced Power
A team of researchers and students are working to develop smart power management technologies.
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