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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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$3.1 Million Grant to Build New Data Exploration Software
Researchers will use a $3.1-million grant to develop software that brings statistical rigor to interactive data exploration.
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Making Smartphones More Aware
The drive to make electronic devices more situationally, contextually aware of their environments.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Wave of Electronics
Engineers at Stanford University say they have developed a flexible, organic, biodegradable electronic device.
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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In Europe's Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News
Scientists are attempting to counter a rash of fake news spreading online as European elections loom.
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Berkeley Students Create Wheelchair Add-On to Help Blind Users Navigate
A new low-cost, modular, customizable add-on system for wheelchairs employs sensors and software to make navigation easier for visually-impaired users.
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You've Had a Good Night's Sleep
A new tool uses machine learning to model personal sleep patterns based on sounds made during sleep.
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Study Finds Gender Bias in Open Source Programming
Women's contributions in open source software communities tend to be accepted more often than men's in general, but they are rejected more frequently when a woman's...
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Computer Scientists Have Created the Most Accurate Digital Model of a Human Face
Imperial College London researchers have automated the generation of three-dimensional morphable models used to represent human faces.
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Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87
A philosopher who believed humans will always be smarter.
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Can Social Networks Help You Get Into Shape?
Researchers at the University of Southern California are studying whether social networks can help make people healthier.
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Disney Projection System Shines Makeup on Actors During Live Performances
The Makeup Lamps system tracks an actor's movements and expressions during live stage performances so the actor's face can be painted with light.
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Hybrid Digital-Analog Circuits Can Increase Computational Power of Chaos-Based Systems
Combining digital and analog elements in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits boosts their computational power by enabling a larger number of inputs to be...
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Beyond Moore's Law
Chipmakers are exploring what comes after they reach the predicted limits of integrated circuit density, complexity.
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Researchers Examining How State-of-the-Art Camera That Mimics Human Eye Could Benefit Robots and Smart Devices
Researchers are developing a camera-based artificial vision system for robots and smart devices that simulates the human eye.
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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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