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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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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper Versus Screens
In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons.
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Indiana niversity Supercomputer Aims For Big Ideas
Big Red II is the fastest supercomputer owned and funded by a U.S. university, and is likely one of the world's 50 fastest.
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Google Predicts Stock-Market Crashes, Study Suggests
A new method of predicting whole stock market shifts is based on publicly available data on Google Trends search terms.
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Can Super Mario Save Artificial Intelligence?
A new program unveiled this month can learn multiple games without any specialized prior knowledge.
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World's First Smartphone For the Blind, Made in India
A National Institute of Design post-graduate student has led the development of a smartphone for the visually impaired.
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Providing Robotic Carers and Smart Systems For the Elderly
Researchers continue to improve and fine-tune an automated carer system for the elderly to make it useful, acceptable, and fun to use.
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From Hackers to Security Experts, the Balkan It Sector Is Booming
After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Bioengineers Build Open Source Language For Programming Cells
Drew Endy wants to build a programming language for the body.
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A Simple Way to Turn Any Lcd Into a Touch Screen
Electromagnetic interference can screw up cell phone and radio reception. But it may also be the key to cheaply transforming regular LCD screens into touch- and...
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With Wave of the Hand, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces
Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. But...
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Nasa Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
A gauge on the Voyager home page, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov, tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave...
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Taking the Pulse of the Crowd
A new system of heart-rate monitors may be connected to a mobile phone system to monitor the collective heart rate of a crowd.
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New System to Combat Online Banking Fraud
University of Cambridge spinoff Cronto is helping to protect customers against the threat posed by man-in-the-browser Trojan malware.
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From Eardrums to Electromagnetics, Demkowicz Hears the Problems
A University of Texas at Austin professor says his study of adaptive finite elements may be applied to math and software related to wave propagation.
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Next-Gen SB SuperSpeed to Eliminate Power Cords
Upgrades to the Thunderbolt and USB SuperSpeed specifications will double data transfer speeds and boost power transfer in both directions 10-fold.
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Google Glass's Word on the Street Now Easier to Read
Wearable displays post information in users' field of view, but the text will need to stand out from the constantly changing background.
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The Martian Chroniclers
There once were two planets, new to the galaxy and inexperienced in life. Like fraternal twins, they were born at the same time, about four and a half billion years...
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In the Virtual Cockpit: What It Takes to Fly a Drone
Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to...
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