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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Rice, Baylor Team Sets New Mark For 'deep Learning'
A new deep learning method developed by researchers at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine enables computers to learn about the visual world with...
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CLA Researchers Combat Antimicrobial Resistance sing Smartphones
New technology from a University of California, Los Angeles research team could help combat the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Mass Data Retention in Eu
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home—like Jarvis in Iron Man.
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Slowing the Spread of Viral Misinformation: Can Crowdsourcing Help?
Social media platforms play a pivotal role in the modern information-sharing environment's facility with virally spreading misinformation, which leads to speculation...
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Driverless Platoons
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a mathematical model to study the effects of scheduling policies on fuel consumption and travel...
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
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Computers Can Take Social Media Data and Make Marketing Personas
Pennsylvania State University researchers have used computers to study information from social media accounts and automatically build marketing personas.
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nderwater Radio, Anyone?
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build wireless radio transmitters in environments that have previously thwarted communication.
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Welcome to the Machines
The home robotics market poised for growth, technological advancement.
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These niversities Are Training the World's Top Coders
The three best coders in the world come from the Russian ITMO University, China's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School, and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science...
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Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
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Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors
Researchers used a combination of software, radar, and other sensors to develop a swarm of autonomous rigid hull inflatable boats and other small boats that can...
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How Do We Keep Gps Safe From Sabotage?
Stanford University professor Per Enge is working to combat potential threats to autonomous navigation systems.
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Artificial Intelligence to Predict Odors
Researchers are working on the Computer Linguistics for Olfaction project to develop an application that can predict which molecule structures will produce or suppress...
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.n. Opens Formal Discussions on AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons, Could Ban 'killer Robots'
Leaders at the United Nations in Geneva just agreed to officially discuss guidelines for the design, development, and engineering of autonomous weapons. Here's...
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Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways
ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...
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