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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Connecting the Jungle and Other Remote Parts of the World
The European Union's TUCAN3G project is bringing 3G wireless service to previously unconnected regions of the world.
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Machine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic
A study by researchers from Tsinghua University in China focused on how traffic signaling can be optimized using deep reinforcement learning.
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A Computer Simulation to Spare Children From Heart Surgery
New software models and compares various pediatric heart surgery interventions in advance, as part of the European Union's CARDIOPROOF project.
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Socieotechnical Changes Inspire pdating Acm's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
ACM is updating the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to maintain its relevance as the conscience of computing.
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The Science of Smartphone Batteries and How to Keep Them Charged
Whenever a new iPhone gets announced, there's one feature that every Apple lover is hoping for: improved battery life.
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You're Pixelated
Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media’s most private parts.
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Setting Up a Decoy Network May Help Deflect a Hacker's Hits
Researchers have created a computer defense system that senses possible malicious probes of a network and redirects the attack to a virtual network.
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Speech Technology Enables Kids to Control Video Game
Researchers at Disney Research say their new keyword-spotting system works better with the video game "Mole Madness" than commercial speech-recognition systems....
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And The Winner Is...columbus!
Columbus, OH, claims the $50-million top spot in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.
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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to help the FBI get into a mass murderer's iPhone last winter, he was hailed for his boldness in fighting the government on ...
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Your Car's New Software Is Ready. Update Now?
Tired of your vehicle and its aging, limited features? Don’t trade it in just yet. Download new software instead.
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CMU Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can perceive fraudsters hiding behind a digital veneer of legitimacy.
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Computers That Can Argue Will Be Satnav For the Moral Maze
Computers that formulate arguments could lead to "research engines" to inform decision-making across a wide range of fields.
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Scientific Visualizations: A Bridge to Knowledge
A conversation with Chris Johnson, founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
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Google's Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring Isis Recruits
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.
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Science Makes First Study of Know-It-All Internet Commenters
Researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft have conducted the first study of intransigent commenters in social networks.
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Judging a Book Through Its Cover
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology are designing an imaging system that can read closed books...
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New 'gel' May Be Step Toward Clothing That Computes
A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has designed a model of a material capable of computational pattern recognition using an oscillating gel...
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Beam Me p to the Video Conference
Researchers have created a technique for virtually transmitting a fully-sized, three-dimensional image of a person that viewers can see from different angles.
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