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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Helps Doctors Use Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have a significant impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google...
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DARPA Announces $2 Billion in Funding for 'AI Next' Campaign
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to spend more than $2 billion on research into "third wave" artificial intelligence capabilities.
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Does Technology Really Enhance Our Decision-Making Ability?
Researchers have determined that most people cannot distinguish between liking a user interface and making sound choices.
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Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign
A public service as campaign called "She Can STEM" aims to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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The Causal Revolutionary
Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian...
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
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Driver's Licenses Going Digital
Iowa plans to be the first U.S. state to replace hard-copy driver's licenses with an app.
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AI Robots Can Develop Prejudices, Just Like s Mere Mortals
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cardiff University in the U.K. found that artificial intelligence bots can develop prejudices by learning...
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Getting Your TV to Understand You Better
Researchers have developed a method to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of home entertainment platforms.
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This Rollable Tablet Was Inspired by Ancient Scrolls
Researchers have developed a prototype rollable touchscreen tablet with a 7.5-inch 2K flexible display wrapped around a three-dimensionally-printed cylinder.
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Meet Martti, the Finnish Robocar That ses 5G
Researchers are testing the capabilities of 5G network technologies to transmit information to and from vehicles while they are on the road, using a robotic car...
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No Sweat on Brown niversity Team Trying to Hack a Robot
Brown University researchers were able to hack a University of Washington robot connected to the Internet.
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Mathematics Can Assist Cities in Addressing nstructured Neighborhoods
New mathematical models can help guide changes to the layout of poor urban neighborhoods to improve access to resources.
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The Outlook for Reality: Mixed
Exploring new frontiers in augmented and virtual reality.
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Model Can More Naturally Detect Depression in Conversations
A new neural network model can analyze raw text and audio data from clinical interviews to detect speech patterns signaling depression.
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Mobile Robots Cooperate to 3D Print Large Structures
Researchers in Singapore used two mobile robots operating concurrently to three-dimensionally-print a single piece of concrete structure.
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First In-Home Test of Brain-Computer Communication by ALS Patients Offers Promise Amidst Challenges
Researchers have demonstrated the reliability of a brain-computer interface that gives patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a means to communicate by thought...
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Silicon Valley Takes a (Careful) Step Toward Autonomous Flying
Several Silicon Valley startups are developing technology that can be applied to small helicopters and other passenger aircraft to allow for autonomous flight. ...
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