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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What’s in the Sweeping Copyright Bill Just Passed by the European Parliament
Legislation now goes to a three-way negotiation within the EU.
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How The Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation
At a certain point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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Beyond Deep Fakes
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new method of automatically transforming the content of one video into the style of another.
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Developers, Despair: Half Your Time Is Wasted on Bad Code
A study found 31% of developer time is wasted on routine maintenance work, draining $300 billion each year from global GDP.
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Summer Computational Modeling Workshop Enriches Minority Students' Education
Students from two historically black institutions spent two weeks this summer learning digital skills from U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory scientists...
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Deepfakes Are a Threat to National Security, Say Lawmakers
Deepfakes are a deep concern for Congress.
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Taking Machine Thinking Out of the Black Box
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
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Many Adults Want to Reskill for Cybersecurity Careers
Many Americans are willing to consider returning to college to pursue a cybersecurity education, according to a recent Champlain College Online survey.
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Virtual Learning: sing AI, Immersion to Teach Chinese
A new artificial intelligence system relies on immersive scenes to teach students the Mandarin language.
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AI Helps Doctors Use Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have a significant impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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Dongarra Awarded 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra has been named to receive the 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.
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How Faking Videos Became Easy and Why That's So Scary
A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in...
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How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google...
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DARPA Announces $2 Billion in Funding for 'AI Next' Campaign
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to spend more than $2 billion on research into "third wave" artificial intelligence capabilities.
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Robots Can Now Pick p Any Object After Inspecting It
Dense Object Nets is a system that lets robots inspect random objects and visually understand them enough to accomplish specific tasks without having seen them...
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Does Technology Really Enhance Our Decision-Making Ability?
Researchers have determined that most people cannot distinguish between liking a user interface and making sound choices.
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A Cyborg Cockroach Could Someday Save Your Life
University of Connecticut researchers have created a cyborg cockroach equipped with a novel microcircuit that allows more reliable and precise control of robotic...
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Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign
A public service as campaign called "She Can STEM" aims to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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A W Professor Argued that Women Don’t Want to Code. What do Women Computer Scientists Have to Say?
Six women computer scientists from the University of Washington respond to an essay about why women don't pursue computer science as often as men.
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