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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Football: New TV Technology to Take Fans 'Inside the Game'
Intel has partnered with the U.K.-based soccer teams Manchester City, Liverpool, and Arsenal to introduce its state-of-the-art True View system to each team's respective...
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Open Access Satellite Data Allows Tracking of Seasonal Population Movements
Researchers have provided open access to detailed satellite data on brightness for five cities in Niger and Nigeria.
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Auto Engineers Warn Your Car Might Be Easier to Hack Than You Think
Adding sophisticated features to vehicles to make drivers' daily commutes easier also make their new vehicles more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a new...
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'Robbie the Robot' Can Spot Worsening Dementia After Watching 13 Episodes of Emmerdale
A robot equipped with artificial intelligence learned to recognize facial expressions by watching TV.
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Trump's Plan to Keep America First in AI
U.S. President Donald Trump today will sign an executive order for the federal government to channel funds, programs, and data in support of artificial intelligence...
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The Era of General Purpose Computers is Ending
The computational economics enabled by Moore's Law is now changing.
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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Opinion by Bruce Schneier, a security technologist who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
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Bless the Overclockers: In the Data Center World, Liquid Cooling Is Becoming King
In Iron Man 2, there is a moment when Tony Stark is watching a decades-old film of his deceased father, who tells him "I'm limited by the technology of my time,...
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A DNA Search Engine for Microbes
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute have developed a DNA search engine for microbial data.
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Mind-Controlled Robot Lets You Weld Metal Without sing Your Hands
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a robot that can follow mental instructions from its operator to weld metal.
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How Analytics are Making Peace Between Fishermen, Turtles
New predictive analytics technologies are helping researchers protect turtles, albatrosses, whales, and other endangered species from fishermen.
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Software That Can Automatically Detect Fake News
Researchers have developed a system that automatically analyzes social media posts and filters out fake news and disinformation.
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Argonne Researchers Develop Method to Reduce Quantum Noise
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed a technique for reducing the effects of "noise" in quantum information systems.
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Friendly Nurse or Nightmare-Inducing Machine? How Culture Programs Our Taste in Robots.
Slowly and silently, they glide across the floor wearing bright yellow dresses that look as though they were plucked from a haunted 1920s boarding school.
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research.
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MIT Robot Combines Vision, Touch to Learn Game of Jenga
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a robot that taught itself to play Jenga.
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Google Releases Dataset to Help AI Systems Spot Fake Audio Recordings
The Google News unit and artificial intelligence research division Google AI have released a speech database in an attempt to identify bogus audio recordings.
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British Military Invests £1M into Headsets that Create Hostile VR Environments for Soldiers Training
The British Army is testing virtual reality headsets that can combine virtual environments with physical objects for a mixed-reality experience.
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