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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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Mapping the World in 3D Will Let s Paint Streets With Augmented Reality
The U.K. startup Scape provides a visual positioning service that uses global positioning systems and multiple camera images to localize users.
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The Robots That Manage the Managers
New artificial intelligence-driven coaching apps and platforms aim to provide basic training in traditional supervisory skills such as delivering feedback and delegating...
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Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Understand.ai is a startup launched in Germany to improve and accelerate the labeling of image elements for autonomous driving algorithms.
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IARPA Is Investing in AI That Constantly Analyzes Worldwide Satellite Images
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity has released a draft solicitation for an analytics tool that can combine satellite images and detect human...
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Software Tool Could Provide Answers to Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions
A new software tool combines machine learning with digital signal processing to make it possible to definitively answer challenging questions.
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An Emerging Threat, Hiding in Plain Sight
Steganography hides information, sometimes right before your eyes.
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High-Tech Collision Warnings, No Matter How Smart Your Car Is
Research suggests older vehicles can be equipped with high-tech systems to make them safer.
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VA Looks to 3D-Printing to Improve Veteran Care
A medical team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is pioneering new ways to use three-dimensional printing.
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Army Researchers Identify New Way to Improve Cybersecurity
Scientists may have identified a new technique for strengthening network cybersecurity.
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Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
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Transparent Architecture
Researchers have devised software that enables simulations and fine-grained analyses of real estate that can be made accessible to developers, architects, and real...
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Cracking the Crypto War
Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: it satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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How WhatsApp, FaceTime and Other Encryption Apps Shaped the Outcome of the Mueller Report
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed multiple contacts among Russian operatives and associates of President Trump in the report made public Thursday....
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New Algorithm Could Save Thousands of Animals From Toxic Testing
Rutgers University researchers designed an algorithm to test for chemical toxicity to benefit workers, and potentially sparing thousands of animals from being experimental...
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Firefighters Had Secret Weapon When Notre Dame Caught Fire: A Robot Named 'Colossus'
Paris firefighters used a 1,100-pound, tank-like robot to mitigate damage to Notre Dame cathedral and prevent the conflagration from spreading further by entering...
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Aviation Automation Climbs New Heights With ALIAS
DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) project aims to develop autonomous artificial intelligences to improve flight safety and performance...
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A Biosynthetic Dual-Core Cell Computer
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have integrated two CRISPR-Cas9-based core processors into human cells, marking a significant breakthrough toward creating...
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If Your Image Is Online, It Might Be Training Facial-Recognition AI
The photo is undeniably cute: a mom and a dad—he with a stubbly beard and rimless glasses, she with choppy brown hair and a wide grin—goofing around and eating...
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Algorithms Spot Millions of California's Tiniest Quakes in Historical Data
When it comes to earthquakes, large, destructive ones dominate the headlines.
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