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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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Private Messaging Apps Increasingly sed for Public Business
One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record.
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Welcome to the Airport of the Future, Where Your Face Is Your Passport
Australia is a bloody long way from the rest of the world.
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First Machine Learning Method Capable of Accurate Extrapolation
Researchers have developed a machine learning method that uses observations to accurately extrapolate all possible conditions shaped by the same physical dynamics...
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IBM Watson Health Extends Partnership With .S. to Help Vets With Cancer
IBM Watson Health has extended its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help treat veterans with cancer using artificial intelligence. ...
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Alphabet to Deploy Balloon Internet in Kenya With Telkom in 2019
Alphabet subsidiary Loon plans to deploy a system of balloons to provide high-speed Internet access to rural and suburban populations in Kenya next year.
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Don't Squish the Jellyfish. Capture It With a Folding Robotic Claw.
Researchers have developed a rotary actuated dodecahedron sampler, a device for studying soft sea creatures such as jellyfish or squid in their natural habitats...
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Decade of Research Shows Little Improvement in Password Guidance
Most of the top 10 English-speaking websites online offer little or no advice on creating passwords that are less likely to be hacked.
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Animals Teach Robots to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.
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Electronics Are Leaving the Plane
Stacking chips and connecting them vertically increases both speed and functionality.
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Broadening the Path for Women in STEM
Organizations work to address 'a notable absence of women in the field.'
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A Record-Breaking Microscope
In a paper Nature, Jiang et al.1 report the highest-magnification image ever obtained using a transmission electron microscope.
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How a Flock of Drones Developed Collective Intelligence
The drones rise all at once, 30 strong, the domes of light on their undercarriages glowing 30 different hues—like luminescent candy sprinkles against the gray,...
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'Storm Chasers' on Mars Searching for Dusty Secrets
Storm chasing takes luck and patience on Earth—and even more so on Mars.
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of T Researchers Tackle Voter Distribution and Gerrymandering in the .S.
As Democrats increasingly live in U.S. cities while Republicans live in more rural areas, researchers analyzed the impact of this phenomenon on the ability to gerrymander...
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Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise
A recent study found that rising sea levels could submerge buried fiber-optic cable essential for Internet operations in coastal U.S. regions within 15 years.
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Can Graphical Passwords Keep s Secure Online?
Researchers from the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China have developed an authentication method that uses semantically linked images.
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Liquid Animations So Realistic You Can Almost Taste Them
Researchers at the University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada have developed a method of precisely animating high-viscosity liquid.
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Girl Scouts Look Toward the Future With 30 New Science, Tech, and Environment Badges
The Girl Scouts announced 30 new badges that will help equip girls with the leadership skills needed to deal with "key 21st century issues."
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The Big Problem with Big Data? Without Theory, It's Just Garbage
"The idea that big data will enable more control of behavior may be a lot of hype."
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