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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Autonomous Drone Swarm Can Localize Gas Leaks
Scientists have engineered a swarm of tiny drones capable of autonomously detecting and localizing gas sources in cramped indoor settings.
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Stanford Researcher's Cryptography Can Preserve Genetic Privacy in Criminal DNA Profiling
Researchers have devised cryptography that permits searching for DNA matches in criminal cases while protecting the suspect's genetic privacy.
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At a Summer Camp, Juice Boxes and Bitcoin Mining
The Crypto Kids Camp hosted five days of activities in Los Angeles to familiarize 26 children ages five to 17 with money and cryptocurrency.
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Why You Should Care About Your Right to Repair Gadgets
New legislation could simplify tech maintenance and make buying a new smartphone or computer the last resort.
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Inside Facebook's Data Wars
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources...
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Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man's brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.
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WHO Releases AI Guidelines for Health
A new report from the World Health Organization offers guidance for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the health sector.
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Singapore Launching $50 Million Program to Advance Research on AI, Cybersecurity
Singapore intends to invest $50 million in research on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity for next-generation communications infrastructures.
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Paris Welcomes First Pizzeria Operated by Robots
The first fully robotic pizzeria has opened in Paris' Beaubourg neighborhood after eight years of development and refinement.
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Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters
Facial recognition systems increasingly are a target for fraudsters.
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Short-Staffed Restaurants Prop Up Table Service with Technology
Casual-dining chains increasingly are using technology for contactless ordering and payment, streamlining the ordering process and helping compensate for a shortage...
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GitHub Previews AI Tool That Makes Coding Suggestions
GitHub partnered with OpenAI to develop GitHub Copilot, which uses artificial intelligence to make it easier to learn to code.
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The New Form of Currency
Central bank digital currencies hold the promise—and peril—of changing money as we know it.
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UOC Team Develops Neural Network to Identify Tiger Mosquitoes
A deep neural network can learn to identify tiger mosquitoes using a large set of images captured on mobile phones and uploaded to the Mosquito Alert platform by...
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The Fed's Digital Dollar could Bring Millions into the Digital Economy
A Fed-backed digital dollar would in theory function like cash and could usher unbanked or underbanked Americans into the digital economy.
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U.S. Says Humans Will Always Be In Control of AI Weapons, but the Age of Autonomous War is Already Here
The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary, But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves already kill people in combat, and have been for...
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Hidden Costs, Flawed Training Plague the V.A.'s Huge Software Upgrade
A $16-billion effort to modernize health records at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ran into major problems in its first installation, two watchdog reports...
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Could Gen Z Free the World From Email?
"It's actually crazy how outdated it is." People born after AOL Mail was invented seem to prefer to communicate in almost any other way.
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Meet the Scientist Teaching AI to Police Human Speech
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau...
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