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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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Chips Down: China Aims to Boost Semiconductors as Trade War Looms
Now, as a trade war with the United States looms, a government decision to accelerate the development of the domestic chip industry underlines how far those goals...
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Finding a Healthier Approach to Managing Medical Data
Researchers are exploring ways to put medical data to greater use while better protecting privacy.
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How Social Networking Sites May Discriminate Against Women
Researchers have shown how two common recommendation algorithms intensify a network effect known as homophily, in which similar or like-minded people cluster together...
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sing AI to Detect Heart Disease
Researchers have developed a better way to predict and monitor cardiovascular disease.
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Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own
A team of researchers has developed a new class of soft robot that can adapt to the environment.
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.S. Is Way Behind Other Countries on Robot 'Readiness,' Report Says
The United States lags behind other countries in readiness for an increasingly automated world, placing ninth on a ranking of 25 advanced economies, according to...
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The Hunt for Explainable AI
Looking for artificial intelligence that can share the basis for its decisions.
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Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy...
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Integrating Optical Components Into Existing Chip Designs
A new method uses existing manufacturing processes to build optics and electronics separately on-chip.
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FDA moves to require patching in connected medical devices
The organization is also looking at launching a public-private safety board to provide analysis and field expertise in a range of technological and clinical subject...
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Flexible TVs, High-Performance Wearable Smart Tech One Step Closer
Researchers in the U.K. and China have developed a nanoscale transistor that could be used in flexible televisions, tablets, and phones, as well as in wearable...
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How AR and Computer Mapping are Leading to Safer Medical Procedures
New smartphone technology can create a more accurate human body scan by using augmented reality and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.
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Intelligent Components for the Power Grid of the Future
A smart transformer prototype that automatically regulates the current flow in semiconductors made of silicon carbide could be used for better integration of electric...
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Sony, Carnegie Mellon Form Partnership to Research Cooking Robots
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to improve food preparation, cooking, and delivery.
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Made in China 2025: Beijing's Big Ambitions from Robots to Chips
China is looking to catch up with rivals like the United States and Germany in high-end technology, making a major push with a "Made in China 2025" strategy that...
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Oral History: Russell Impagliazzo in Conversation with Dick Karp
In honor of Dick Karp's five years of service as Founding Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
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Chip Developed by Brazilian Researchers Will Be Linchpin of LHC pgrade
Researchers in Brazil have designed a chip to upgrade the detection system in the Large Hadron Collider's A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE).
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Andrea Goldsmith Receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Stanford University professor Andrea Goldsmith has received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award.
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New Algorithm Locates Fake sers on Social Networks
Researchers have created a generic method to detect fake accounts on most social networks.
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