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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Brain-Emulating Chips Get Smarter, Smaller, More Efficient
Neuromorphic chips manage "many cores" by connecting artificial neurons with artificial neurons, mirroring how human brains operate.
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Demand for Blockchain Experts Surges Amid Skills Shortage
China's need for blockchain technology experts is soaring.
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Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology
The deep neural networks that power today's artificial intelligence systems work in mysterious ways.
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Researchers Restore 'Feeling' to Lost Limbs, Kinda
The bionic hand closes slowly. Its slender metal digits whirr as they jitter into a loose fist, as though they are wrapping around an invisible baton.
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TSA Researchers Want to Teach Computers to Learn Like Humans
Researchers have created a new cloud-based learning platform for artificial intelligence designed to teach machines to learn like humans.
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Mechanical Harvesting of Papayas Might Be a Reality With Computational Technique
Researchers are investigating how papayas could be harvested mechanically using algorithms and computer vision.
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of R Researchers Developing Automated Pain Detection System for Dementia Patients
University of Regina researchers have developed a system that can recognize when non-verbal adults with dementia are in pain.
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Software Aims to Reduce Food Waste by Helping Those in Need
Iowa State University researchers have developed software to divert excess food to those in need.
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Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees
Researchers have created a novel machine learning method that enables scientists to derive insights from highly complex systems in record time.
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
Deep neural network software driving innovation in consumer gadgets and automated driving is vulnerable to sabotage by hallucination, experts say.
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The Final Frontier's Final Frontier
The Space Test Program-Houston 6 hybrid and reconfigurable space supercomputer will board the International Space Station in about a year.
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Computing Gets Foggy
Fog computing offers a more effective way to address the challenges of distributed systems and Internet of Things devices.
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For Blind Gamers, Equal Access to Racing Video Games
A Columbia University student has created a new system to help the visually impaired play racing video games.
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AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding nknown Bugs in the Code
A new algorithm plays Atari games and advances within them either by baiting an enemy to kill itself, or by exploiting bugs that allow the algorithm to cheat.
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New Algorithm Allows for Potential 'Brain-Reading'
A new machine learning algorithm is capable of identifying pieces of music from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the listener's brain.
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China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...
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Social Sensing Emerges as a Tool for Army Leaders
U.S. Army and university scientists are seeking to create social sensing as a scientific discipline.
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Stanford Researchers Develop Technique to See Objects Hidden Around Corners
Stanford University researchers have developed laser-based imaging technology that can produce images of objects hidden from view around corners.
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It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.
What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...
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