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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Cmu, Pitt Brain Imaging Science Identifies Individuals With Suicidal Thoughts
Researchers have developed an approach to identify suicidal individuals by analyzing changes in how their brains represent concepts such as death, cruelty, and...
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Sharing Secrets (without Giving Them Away)
Secure multiparty computation protects privacy while sharing vital data.
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There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study
A study by neuroscientists offers insights into whether computers may become conscious by deconstructing consciousness into three categories.
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How Russian Trolls Lie Their Way to the Top of Your News Feed
Going viral used to be harmless.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams of Data
Researchers have created a near-perfect streaming algorithm that operates by recalling only enough of what it has seen to relate what it has observed most often...
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Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants
Researchers have developed a method of assessing a preterm infant's brain maturity from an electroencephalogram.
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What Virtual Reality Can Teach a Driverless Car
Major companies are testing autonomous car software within virtual reality simulations of cities.
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Singapore Teaches Its Seniors to Code
Libraries in Singapore are hosting special versions of the global Hour of Code movement to help seniors learn how to program in the Swift language.
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Women and Robots, 'there's Just No Trust'
Researchers found women were much less likely than men to trust humanoid machines.
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Facebook’s Head of AI Wants US to Stop Using the Terminator to Talk About AI
Yann LeCun chats about super-intelligent artificial intelligence and the future of virtual assistants.
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Alan Turing: How His niversal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
Alan Turing is one of the great pioneers of the digital age, establishing the mathematical foundations of computing and using electromechanical digital machines...
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sing Robots in Patient Rehabilitation
Researchers conducted a study of user preferences as an initial step toward developing an interactive movement rehabilitation protocol.
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Secure Payment Without Leaving a Trace
Researchers in Germany have developed a secure system for making online payments that that works anonymously and prevents misuse.
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Old Phones Get New Life in High-Powered Computer Servers
Researchers at Princeton University have demonstrated that old smartphones can be used to build computer servers at much lower cost than high-end servers.
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AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas
Researchers at the artificial intelligence company Vicarious say they have developed a computer model that can solve CAPTCHAs.
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Twitter Bans Russian Government-Owned News Sites Rt and Sputnik from Buying Ads
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
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Researchers Demonstrate 'mind-Reading' Brain-Decoding Tech
Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for decoding what the brain is seeing.
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