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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Edge of Computational Photography
Smartphones and consumer cameras increasingly give professional photographers a run for their money.
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Google's Language Techniques Help O2 Czech Republic Reveal Network Secrets
Word2vec, a neural network technique developed to understand human languages, also can interpret raw cell tower data.
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Environmental DNA Program Makes Conservation Research Faster, More Efficient
New open source software simplifies environmental DNA research by allowing scientists to quickly recognize a broad spectrum of species.
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How Computation is Changing Journalism
Nicholas Diakopoulos has helped to make journalism is increasingly computational.
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Algorithm Tells Robots Where Nearby Humans are Headed
A new algorithm accurately aligns partial trajectories in real time, allowing motion predictors in self-driving cars to accurately anticipate the timing of a person's...
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ber Eats To Test Flying Food To Customers By Drone In San Diego
Uber will start delivering food with drones in San Diego this summer, aiming to test out ways to connect a payload to customers in a dense urban environment where...
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Stanford Team Aims at Alexa, Siri With Privacy-Minded Alternative
Stanford University researchers are designing voice-operated virtual assistants that give users more control over personal information.
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From Brueghel to Warhol: AI Enters the Attribution Fray
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
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AI Technology Improves Critical Crack Detection
A new artificial intelligence system can detect unidentified or underidentified structural damage in major infrastructure such as nuclear reactors, skyscrapers,...
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The Chatbots are Coming!
Advances in chatbots are changing the way we interact with computing devices.
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Creating an AI can be 5x Worse for the Planet than a Car
The training of a single artificial intelligence program can require as much as 284 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or about five times the lifetime emissions...
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Image-Recognition Technology May Not Be as Secure as We Think
Evidence is growing that image recognition technology may be more susceptible to deception than previously assumed.
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Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? The pdated ACM Code of Ethics
Ethical responsibility is especially critical to artificial intelligence developers, said Catherine Flick of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.
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AI Mavericks Want to Build A Better Brain for Industrial Robots
Some big-names in AI and robotics are teaming up to develop a robot operating system that will aim to address the shortcomings of today's smartest machines.
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Keeping Algorithms Fair
It's easier to de-bias algorithms than it is to de-bias people.
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How Quantum Computer Could Break 2,048-Bit RSA Encryption in 8 Hours
Researchers have developed a more efficient technique for decryption calculations by quantum computers.
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Autonomous Boats Can Target, Latch Onto Each Other
Researchers have designed autonomous boats that can automatically target and latch onto each other.
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Quicker Eye for Robotics to Help in Our Cluttered, Human Environments
A new algorithm permits machines to sense their surroundings faster, which could help assistive robots operate more efficiently in unstructured environments.
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Model Identifies High-Risk Areas for Lumpy Skin Disease in Cattle
An international team of researchers has integrated two computer models to highlight regions at highest risk for lumpy skin disease virus epidemics in cattle.
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