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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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Vision Teacher
Researchers in Germany are teaching intelligent algorithms to detect cars, pedestrians, and potentially dangerous objects in x-ray images from transportation security...
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Cybersecurity in Self-Driving Cars
The Mcity Threat Identification Model is a new tool to help scientists analyze the likelihood of cybersecurity threats that must be overcome for autonomous and...
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Thinking Machines Going Mainstream
Experts predict cognitive computing will eventually become normalized as a routine behavioral component in newer systems.
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Do We Need a Tech Boom For the Elderly?
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...
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A Dead-Simple Algorithm Reveals the True Toll of Voter Id Laws
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to match individuals across government databases with nearly 100% accuracy by using a few basic identifiers.
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DARPA Launches Subterranean Challenge to Improve nderground Ops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge asks participants to develop systems that could help humans map, traverse, and search...
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Psychedelic Toasters Fool Image Recognition Tech
Researchers say they have created psychedelic stickers that can fool image-recognition software into seeing objects that do not exist.
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Your Phone Will Know You Better Than Your Friends Do, U of T Researcher Predicts
Richard Zemel at the University of Toronto in Canada discusses artificial intelligence developments he anticipates for the year ahead.
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How A Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found 'worst' Chip Flaw
The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.
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A Giant Technical Leap in Speech Recognition
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas are developing speech-processing technology to transcribe audio conversations between astronauts, mission-control...
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How an AI 'cat-and-Mouse Game' Generates Believable Fake Photos
A new artificial intelligence system analyzes thousands of celebrity photos, infers common patterns, and generates new images that are similar.
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AI Early Diagnosis Could Save Heart and Cancer Patients
Ultromics is a new artificial intelligence system that can diagnose heart scans with much greater accuracy than conventional methods, picking up details physicians...
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Wisdom of the Crowd Accurately Predicts Supreme Court Decisions
Researchers say they have analyzed how well crowdsourcing can predict decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court by crunching data from the online FantasySCOTUS league...
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Does Your Phone Know If You're Sick?
A Notre Dame University professor suggests in the next two years there will be significant progress in incorporating software into smartphones to assess one's health...
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Cracking the Brain's Enigma Code
Brain-controlled prosthetic devices have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with limited mobility resulting from injury or disease.
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
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Smartphone Science
A new generation of portable scientific instruments is taking shape, thanks to mobile processors and innovative data-gathering techniques.
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'listening' Drone Helps Find Victims Needing Rescue in Disasters
Researchers in Japan say they have developed technology capable of distinguishing simultaneous speech from multiple persons, demonstrating simultaneous meal ordering...
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