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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nram Set to Spark a 'holy War' Among Memory Technologies
A non-volatile memory technology based on carbon nanotubes could be more disruptive to enterprise storage, servers, and consumer electronics than flash memory when...
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N.s.a. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications
In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the...
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Poker Play Begins in 'brains vs. Ai: Upping the Ante'
Play began Jan. 11 for "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante," a competition at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh that pits a Carnegie Mellon University...
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Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says
The march of automation will displace jobs more gradually than some alarming forecasts suggest.
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Stepping Stones in an Ocean of Data
An interview with science writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy,” Keith Devlin.
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New Framework Could Help Online Addicts Reduce Their sage
Binghamton University researchers have developed a new computer model that could help Internet addicts realize their usage is a problem and reduce it.
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Watch These Mini-Robots Self-Assemble Into Different Shapes
Harvard University's Self-Organizing Systems Research group has developed a "large-scale robot collective" that can self-assemble into different shapes.
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DARPA Wants to Create Secure Data-Sharing Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching the Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge project.
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Searching Deep and Dark: Building a Google For the Less Visible Parts of the Web
Apache Tika could help with the effort to teach computers to recognize, index, and search all the different types of material that is available online.
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He Helped Create the 'google Brain.' Here's What He Thinks About AI Now
Trucks that can drive themselves along delivery routes. Computers capable of defeating world champions in a notoriously complex game. Apps that can translate sentences...
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...
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Ua-Developed Avatar Is Helping to Screen New Arrivals at Bucharest Airport
University of Arizona researchers have developed a virtual border agent to question international travelers and flag those that seem suspicious.
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Jill Watson, Round Three
The Georgia Institute of Technology is beginning its third semester using a virtual teaching assistant system in an online course about artificial intelligence....
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Innovators Wanted: Machine Learning, Iot Jobs on the Rise
The job market for machine learning and artificial intelligence-related positions is heating up.
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Taking Graphics Cards Beyond Gaming
A new mathematical solver enables the graphics cards found in gaming computers to solve computationally intensive mathematical problems.
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Finding Trust and Understanding in Autonomous Technologies
Whether autonomous technologies become truly ubiquitous will depend on how much they can be trusted.
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Utsa Study Shows How Phishing Scams Thrive on Overconfidence
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have examined overconfidence in detecting phishing emails, based on the theory that most people believe they are...
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Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
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