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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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Decentralizing the Web: Maintaining the Momentum
The Internet Archive's Wendy Hanamura on progress towards a decentralized web.
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New Technology Gives Clinicians Inside View of Patients' Joints in Motion
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada have created technology that is helping physicians see how patients' joints function when in motion.
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Research Robots Sometimes Left nsecured on the Internet, Study Finds
Brown University researchers have identified exposed systems running the Robot Operating System, with as many as 19 considered to be fully operational robots.
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Google, Seeking a Return to China, Is Said to Be Building a Censored Search Engine
Google withdrew from China eight years ago to protest the country's censorship and online hacking.
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Skoltech Scientists se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth
Researchers have developed a method for predicting the growth of biomass of a plant, which they say will improve the efficiency of precision farming.
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AI-Equipped Robots Develop Situational Awareness in Earth's Most ncertain Environment
Researchers have created algorithms to teach robots to adapt to changing conditions related to protecting and preserving underwater infrastructure.
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Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making
An analysis found doctors' "gut feelings" about an intensive-care patient's condition played a significant role in determining how many tests were ordered for the...
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes revising the peer review process to ensure scientists report negative societal consequences of...
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Same Web-Based Vulnerabilities Still Prevalent After Nine Years
The threat of common Web-based vulnerabilities has not been significantly mitigated over the past nine years, according to a study by the U.K.-based NCC Group. ...
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Reprogrammable Braille
Researchers have developed a framework to encode memory—in the form of Braille-like dimples and bumps—onto a blank, lattice-free material.
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Amazon Face Recognition Falsely Matches 28 Lawmakers With Mugshots, ACL Says
A test of Amazon's facial recognition software incorrectly matched the faces of 28 U.S. legislators to images in a mugshot database.
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Computer Simulation of Receptors Reveals a New Ligand-Binding Site
Using a computer model of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, researchers have found a unique binding site for natural ligands and drugs.
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Deep Learning Quickly Finds Structures Affected by Lava
Researchers are working with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to see how lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has affected buildings and infrastructure...
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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy.
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Legislating Against AI Bias
Is this the beginning of the end of algorithmic bias in public-sector services?
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AI Technology Could Help Protect Water Supplies
Researchers have developed artificial intelligence software that can identify and quantify different kinds of cyanobacteria that can shut down water systems.
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NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed p Medical Breakthroughs
A new U.S. National Institutes of Health program aims to help researchers accelerate biomedical advances by providing access to commercial cloud computing technologies...
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Decade-Old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices
A study by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology warns of a decade-old bug in the Bluetooth specification.
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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