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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Big Data Analysis Identifies New Cancer Risk Genes
Researchers in Spain have developed an analysis method for systematically identifying genes involved in hereditary cancer risk, using existing cancer genome datasets...
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Test Tube Artificial Neural Network Recognizes 'Molecular Handwriting'
California Institute of Technology researchers have developed an artificial neural network from DNA that can correctly identify handwritten numbers.
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How Computers Parse the Ambiguity of Everyday Language
Ohio State University researchers investigating the challenge of ambiguous language for computers used an online game to clarify work in the field of natural language...
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Simpifying Machine-based Touch Sensing
A three-dimensionally-printed nervous system could allow robots to perceive touch the way we do.
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Code Now, Pay Tuition Later
Organizations are offering free coding programs for Web engineers that include job placement; graduates agree to pay the schools a portion of their salaries once...
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'We Can Build a Real Time Machine'
Travelling in time might sound like a flight of fancy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.
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Facebook's Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms
When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities...
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Researchers Discover Android Apps Spying on sers' Screens
An analysis of Android apps found “several” clandestinely recording and sharing video and images of users' screens.
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Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds
A team of researchers has developed a prototype bandage that can actively monitor chronic wounds, and deliver appropriate drug treatments to improve the chances...
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Holograms Are Helping Medical Training
San Diego State University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are testing mixed-reality software for the education of nurse trainees.
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Girl Scouts Are Learning to Pick Locks, Hack Computers
The Girl Scouts are hosting workshops to teach members the basics in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators
Cornell University researchers have devised ways for biodegradable robotic actuators to be powered by popping corn.
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The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
The gems of every World Cup are the impossible goals.
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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Robot Able to Mimic an Activity After Observing It Just One Time
A University of California, Berkeley team has engineered a robot that can mimic an activity after viewing it only once on a video screen.
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This Is the Brightest Early niverse Object Ever Seen
A galaxy spinning around a hungry supermassive black hole that's guzzling down matter and shooting out plasma jets has grabbed the attention of astronomers 13 billion...
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How Architects Are sing Virtual Reality to Walk Through Buildings That Don't Yet Exist
Virtual reality is allowing architects to preview structures that have not yet been built in an immersive, three-dimensional manner.
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How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....
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HHS Is sing Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud, and Just About Everything Else
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is using refined data analytics to combat medical fraud, waste, and abuse.
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