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New App Could se Smartphone Selfies to Screen For Pancreatic Cancer
The BiliScreen app provides pancreatic cancer screening by having users take photos of themselves with a smartphone.
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Everyone's an Expert, but a Computer Program May Be Able to Pick the Best Ones
A new algorithm analyzed the estimates of an agribusiness expert and helped a business division at an agricultural chemicals company improve its forecast accuracy...
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Shark-Hunting AI-Powered Algorithm to Begin Flying Over Aussie Beaches
SharkSpotter is a new deep learning algorithm that can use real-time video footage streamed from aerial drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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With a Simple Dna Test, family Histories Are Rewritten
Bob Hutchinson's mother told him and his siblings almost nothing about her family, no matter how often they asked. "She was good at brushing people off," said Mr...
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Accelerating the Mobile Web: 'vroom' Software Could Double Its Speed
Vroom is a new software prototype that works by optimizing the end-to-end interaction between mobile devices and Web servers.
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Computer Algorithm Automatically Recognizes Soccer Formations and Defensive Strategies
Researchers have developed a deep-learning algorithm that automatically recognizes formations of teams when analyzing player tracking data.
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Nyu Steinhardt Awarded More Than $4 Million From National Science Foundation For STEM Education Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded New York University grants totalling more than $4 million for research to improve computer science and computational...
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2 to Receive 2017 Acm/ieee George Michael Memorial Hpc Fellowships
The Fellowships honor exceptional Ph.D. students worldwide whose research focuses on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis...
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Niac Cybersecurity Report Regarding Critical Infrastructure Issued
The draft report warns the U.S. is falling short on its ability to defend critical systems against aggressive cyberattacks.
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Big Brother Is Watching You
Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
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Your Broadband Provider Can se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You
How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own...
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Cryptographers and Geneticists nite to Analyze Genomes They Can't See
Stanford University cryptographer Dan Boneh and geneticist Gill Bejerano have developed a secure multiparty computation algorithm to discover disease-linked genetic...
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Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too
Researchers have developed a way for high school students and first-year engineering students to learn robot intelligence technologies.
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions
Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor...
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Revolutionary Approach Brings 3D Sound Into the Living Room
Researchers have developed the Media Device Orchestration concept, which helps create a three-dimensional audio experience using common home devices.
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Breakthrough Could Make Quantum Data Transmission a Reality
Researchers have relayed a quantum-secured message containing multiple bits of information for each photon through the air above a city.
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Collection of Letters By Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
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