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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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How ProPublica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog
The nonprofit is fighting fire with fire, developing algorithms and bots that hold Facebook and Amazon accountable.
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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County—a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state—asked David A. Eckhardt, a computer science...
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The Impact of C++
The C++ programming language is integral to a huge variety of computer systems.
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Noise Warfare
Researchers at Harvard University have developed noise-robust classifiers against the worst case of added additional data that disrupts or skews information an...
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Supercomputers Aid Discovery of New, Inexpensive Material to Make LEDs With Excellent Color Quality
Researchers used data mining and computational tools to find a new phosphor material for white light-emitting diodes that yield better color quality than many commercial...
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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F# for Scientists
Over the next five years, F# is expected to become a popular functional programming language for scientists working on the Windows platform.
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Scientists Pave the Way for Resilient Robot Swarms
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. say they are developing fault-tolerant robotic swarms using bio-inspired algorithms and machine learning...
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Researchers Find Tweeting in Cities Lower Than Expected
Researchers at the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Lab say they have found that fewer people tweet per capita from larger cities than in smaller ones...
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Twitter Bars Tactics sed by 'Bots' to Spread False Stories
Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and...
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Multidisciplinary Team Receives DARPA Award to Develop Novel Magnetic Materials
Researchers have received a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency award to develop novel magnetic materials by unlocking the power of skyrmions.
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New Algorithm Can Pinpoint Mutations Favored by Natural Selection in Large Sections of the Human Genome
A new algorithm can identify mutations in the human genome favored by natural selection.
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Snake-Inspired Robot Uses Kirigami to Move
Researchers have developed a soft robot without any rigid components that moves like a snake.
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Physicists Create New Form of Light
Researchers have demonstrated the successful interaction of photons, which could clear a path toward using light particles in quantum computing.
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The State of Fakery
How digital media could be authenticated, from computational, legal, and ethical points of view.
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The Construction Industry in the 21st Century
Three-dimensional printing and other new technologies are revitalizing the business of building buildings.
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Sessions Forms .S. Cyber Task Force After Election Warnings
The Justice Department will have until the end of June to report its findings.
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The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Picture this: You're driving home from work, contemplating what to make for dinner, and as you idle at a red light near your neighborhood pizzeria, an ad offering...
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Fake News 'Vaccine': Online Game May 'Inoculate' by Simulating Propaganda Tactics
A new online game is designed to provide "general immunity" against fake news and propaganda.
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