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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Tries Bad Improv Comedy to Trick People Into Thinking It Is Human
Improbotics is an artificial intelligence-based comedy theater that includes a human, a puppet, and a cyborg.
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Putting Answers to the Test
A new algorithm creates plausible answers designed to distract students from the correct answer in multiple choice exams.
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.S. Election System Security Still Vexing
There appears to be no standard approach among the state and local jurisdictions that will administer the next election.
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JAXA Wants Telepresence Robots for In-Space Construction and Exploration
Last Monday, we covered the new, updated, and way way better guidelines for the ANA Avatar XPRIZE.
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Soon Your Doctor Will Be Able to Wirelessly Track Your Health—Even Through Walls
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has created a box that, when placed in a user's home, can track his/her physiological signals, even through walls...
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Understanding Deep-Sea Images With AI
Researchers have developed a new standardized workflow for sustainable marine image analysis.
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Making Computer Science Accessible
The CSforAll initiative introduced an accessibility pledge to encourage companies and schools to eliminate some of the obstacles to computer science that disabled...
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Detecting Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.
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How to Stop Data Centers from Gobbling p the World's Electricity
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...
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Talking Gloves, Tactile Windows: New Tech Helps the Disabled
Hadeel Ayoub slips a black glove onto her hand before beginning the swish of sign language that is meaningless to the untrained observer. Then she pushes a button...
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'Everybody Dance Now': C Berkeley Researchers Develop Technology to Alter Dance Videos
New technology can alter dance videos to make amateur dance moves seem more advanced.
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Preventing Exfiltration of Sensitive Docs by Flooding Systems With Hard-to-Detect Fakes
Researchers have proposed protecting important documents by generating so many believable fakes that attackers must either exfiltrate them all or attempt to find...
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Post Net Neutrality, Internet Providers Are Slowing Down Your Streaming
Researchers have found that Internet service providers are "giving a fixed amount of bandwidth...to video traffic, but they don't impose these limits on other network...
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Deep Learning: Is It Approaching a Wall?
As with all major technologies in their early phases, deep learning must overcome a number of serious challenges.
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Beyond Deep Fakes
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new method of automatically transforming the content of one video into the style of another.
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AI Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 fast radio bursts from a mysterious source about 3 billion light years from Earth.
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DARPA Wants Brain Interfaces for Able-Bodied Warfighters
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned...
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Taking Machine Thinking Out of the Black Box
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
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Many Adults Want to Reskill for Cybersecurity Careers
Many Americans are willing to consider returning to college to pursue a cybersecurity education, according to a recent Champlain College Online survey.
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