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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Being Black in Tech Can Cost You $10k a Year
African-American technology workers receive an average $10,000 less annually than whites in New York and San Francisco, according to a survey from the Hired online...
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Stanford's Women in Data Science Conference Reaches Worldwide Audience
The second annual Women in Data Science conference, held last week at Stanford University in California by the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering...
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Kingston niversity to Explore How Drones, Smart Wristbands, and Cameras Could Transform Future of Concert Security
Researchers will investigate how networked drones, smart wristbands, and body-mounted video cameras could enhance concert security.
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The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class
In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world...
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Trick of Tweet: Data Tool Pinpoints Words Seen as Credible
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
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Why the Earth's Magnetic Poles Could Be About to Swap Places, and How It Would Affect us
The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field, protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away...
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Terahertz Wireless Could Make Spaceborne Satellite Links as Fast as Fiber-Optic Links
Researchers in Japan have developed a terahertz transmitter that can transmit digital data at a rate exceeding 100 Gbps over a single channel using the 300-GHz...
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Stanford Research Shows That Anyone Can Become an Internet Troll
Researchers have investigated whether Internet trolls are innately sociopathic or combative individuals, or if situational factors can influence ordinary people...
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Mathematically Optimizing Traffic Lights in Road Intersections
A team of researchers is addressing the challenge of computing optimal traffic light settings for city road intersections by applying traffic flow conservation...
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Chinese Firms Racing to the Front of the AI Revolution
Chinese companies are outpacing U.S. firms in the development of artificial intelligence technologies, according to reports from the U.S. government and others....
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Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.
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Turbocharging Science
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has commenced operations of the new Cheyenne supercomputer, one of the world's most powerful and energy-efficient systems...
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Blind People 'see' Microscope Images Using Touch-Feedback Device
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
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Su Professors Receive Air Force Grant to Research Complex Datasets
Syracuse University researchers have received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to build a distributed graphics processing unit-accelerated...
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify Effective Cancer Drug Combinations
Researchers at Cornell University have found artificial intelligence can help scientists predict what combinations of existing drugs could combat different types...
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New Algorithms May Revolutionize Drug Discoveries—and Our Understanding of Life
A new set of machine learning algorithms that can generate three-dimensional structures of tiny protein molecules may revolutionize the development of drug therapies...
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Rolf Noskwith Obituary
A member of the Bletchley Park team breaking the German navy’s Enigma ciphers during the second World War.
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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...
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Complex 3D Data on All Devices
A new Web-based software platform supports three-dimensional data visualization on any connected device, optimizing the use of virtual reality in industry.
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