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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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The Impact of Moore’s Law Ending
Chips will cost more to design and manufacture even without pushing to the latest node, but that's not the whole story.
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Marvin Minsky Medal for Outstanding Achievements in AI
Libratus team announced as IJCAI Minsky medal recipients.
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sing Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4-...
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Astronomers Creep p to the Edge of the Milky Way's Black Hole
For the first time, scientists have spotted something wobbling around the black hole at the core of our galaxy.
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Google Says 'Exponential' Growth of AI is Changing Nature of Compute
Google software engineer Cliff Young explains how the explosion in deep learning algorithms is coinciding with a breakdown in Moore's Law, forcing new computer...
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Another se for AI: Finding Millions of nregistered Voters
IBM's Jeff Jonas has for several years used his artificial intelligence software for a multistate project to identify eligible voters and purge voter rolls of inaccuracies...
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The Robot Revolution Is Coming, and Dang Is It Cute
How adorable robots are may be a critical factor for their public acceptance.
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Oregon Schools to Receive Federal Grant Funds to Boost Computer Science Education
Schools in three Oregon counties will use a federal grant to help high school students in Career Technical Education programs transition to post-secondary education...
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Make People Valuable Again
David Nordfors and Vint Cerf suggest that innovation can, and should, make people more valuable.
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The New Face of Law Enforcement
Facial recognition and augmented reality are changing the way law enforcement agencies investigate crime, but there are important privacy issues to consider.
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Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology, Ethics of AI
Many U.S. colleges and universities are investing in and expanding artificial intelligence education, confronting new challenges for teaching the discipline.
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Machine Learning Spots Natural Selection at Work in Human Genome
Pinpointing where and how the human genome is evolving can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
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Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
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To Fight Email Scammers, Take a Different View. Literally.
Researchers have developed a visual analytics tool that dramatically speeds up forensic email investigations and highlights critical links within email data.
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'Human Brain' Supercomputer Switched On to nlock Secrets of the Mind
Researchers are about to launch a supercomputer designed to mimic the human brain.
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Fleets of Drones Could Aid Searches for Lost Hikers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an autonomous system to direct a fleet of drones.
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Technology, Slow to the Restaurant Scene, Is Now On the Menu
The Canadian restaurant industry has been more significantly transformed by technology in the last five years than in the preceding 50.
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How to Encode a Secret Message in a Fingerprint
Researchers have developed a method for constructing digital fingerprints that encode secret messages into the spiral points on the prints.
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Even a Few Bots Can Shift Public Opinion in Big Ways
Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump.
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