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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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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...
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sing Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery
Researchers collaborated on the use of machine learning algorithms to gain new insights about the history of music.
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Toolkit for Building a Smart City Plan
The Smart Cities Council has rolled out a Web-based portal to help cities gather and organize the data they require for smart city project planning.
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The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting research teams to develop a neural interface to allow soldiers to link their brains to military...
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O Internet Architect Honored With International Award
The Internet Society presented Steven Huter with the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award in recognition of his years of work helping to bring the Internet to more...
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Toward a Secure Electrical Grid
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have proposed a new method for protecting the electrical grid from a cyberattack.
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How .S. Intelligence Agencies Can Find Out What Trump Told Putin
President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin hobbled U.S. intelligence agencies that would usually...
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Python has Brought Computer Programming to a Vast New Audience
And its inventor has just stepped down.
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Not Quite Quantum Computing
Fujitsu says its "Quantum-Inspired" Digital Annealing is capable of tackling combinatorial optimization problems.
From ACM Opinion
"I Was Devastated": Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets
"For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it," Tim Berners-Lee told me one...
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Looking Toward the Sky, Trojans Trace UFO Sightings
Researchers analyzed thousands of documented UFO sightings to determine the degree to which factors such as movie releases and weather events shaped sighting patterns...
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Eagle-Eyed Machine Learning Algorithm Outdoes Human Experts
Researchers have taught computers to spot microscopic radiation damage to materials to be used in nuclear reactors.
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Autonomous and Cooperating: The Dawn of the Drone Swarm
The Hungarian Academy of Science has demonstrated a method of inducing real-world self-organizing flocking behavior in robot drones.
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This Bomb-Simulating S Supercomputer Broke a World Record
Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem.
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Private Messaging Apps Increasingly sed for Public Business
One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record.
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Welcome to the Airport of the Future, Where Your Face Is Your Passport
Australia is a bloody long way from the rest of the world.
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First Machine Learning Method Capable of Accurate Extrapolation
Researchers have developed a machine learning method that uses observations to accurately extrapolate all possible conditions shaped by the same physical dynamics...
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IBM Watson Health Extends Partnership With .S. to Help Vets With Cancer
IBM Watson Health has extended its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help treat veterans with cancer using artificial intelligence. ...
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Alphabet to Deploy Balloon Internet in Kenya With Telkom in 2019
Alphabet subsidiary Loon plans to deploy a system of balloons to provide high-speed Internet access to rural and suburban populations in Kenya next year.
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