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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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Drone Exemptions For Hollywood Pave the Way For Widespread se
The commercial use of drones in American skies took a leap forward on Thursday with the help of Hollywood. The Federal Aviation Administration said six companies...
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Build Something
Research has found that giving students a sense of the usefulness of their studies to the greater world can help improve learning. For the computer sciences one...
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Geo-Ranking the Internet
Many factors can affect how resilient and durable access to the Internet can be in a given country, and a pair of German researchers have defined nine factors that...
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'dr. Fill' Vies For Crossword Solving Supremacy, but Still Comes p Short
Computers have long been able to beat even the best human opponents at games such as chess, but humans remain dominant when it comes to the crossword puzzle.
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Facebook, Intel Back Effort to Lift Engineer Diversity
Rectifying a lack of diversity among computer science undergraduates is the goal of the BRAID program, to which Facebook, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others will...
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Robotic Fabric Could Bring 'active Clothing,' Wearable Robots
Purdue University researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors. The researchers say the fabric could be used...
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Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
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Gradual Evolution
Dynamically typed languages adopt features of static typing to cope with growth.
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Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
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The New Digital Medicine
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
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Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
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The Solace of Oblivion
October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father's sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California...
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Tiny Robot Learns to Fly a Real Plane
A small, hobby-sized robot could herald the pilot of the future.
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The Anita Borg Institute and Harvey Mudd College Launch Initiative to Increase the Diversity in Computer Science ndergraduate Majors at 2014 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
"BRAID" will work with 15 CS departments to increase the percentage of their undergraduate majors that are female and minorities.
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Video Games Could Dramatically Streamline Education Research
Washington State University researchers have developed a computational modeling method for conducting research on science curricula in classrooms.
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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot nprecedented Dexterity
Researchers have developed a robot equipped with tactile sensors that enable it to grasp a USB cable draped over a hook and insert it into a USB port.
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Googlex to Circle the Earth With Internet-Connected Balloons
GoogleX's Project Loon aims to provide wireless Internet access to billions of people living in remote locations by building a ring of balloons around the Earth...
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The Hidden World of Facebook "like Farms"
A new study systematically investigated the nature of so-called Facebook "like farms," services which will direct Facebook Likes to a given Facebook page for a...
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