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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Devices, Wearable System Aim to Predict, Prevent Asthma Attacks
A wearable system of sensors could help people with asthma predict and prevent asthma attacks by tracking environmental and physiological data.
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Google Developing Panic Button to Kill Rogue AI
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and Oxford University are collaborating to create a panic button to interrupt a potentially rogue artificial intelligence agent...
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How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus
In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect.
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Researchers ncover a Flaw in Europe's Tough Privacy Rules
Europe likes to think it leads the world in protecting people’s privacy, and that is particularly true for the region’s so-called right to be forgotten.
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France Embraces Digital Transformation
Despite the challenges, France is providing public funding and investing in infrastructure to support business transition to digital technologies.
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All-Female Team to Lead Association For Computing Machinery
ACM has announced its board of directors for the first time will be completely female.
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Bill Gates Claims 'ai Dream Is Finally Arriving'--and Says Machines Will Outsmart Humans in Some Areas Within a Decade
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the progress of artificial intelligence ensures machines will be able to outclass humans in certain knowledge areas within...
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Pittsburgh Roads Wired With 'talking' Traffic Signals
Researchers have installed dedicated short-range communication radios at 35 intersections in Bloomfield and Marshall, PA.
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...
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Internet Trends 2016 Code Conference
The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth.
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Pc Hardware Is Physically Leaking Your Encryption Keys
Your computer has an aura. That sentence causes me actual physical pain to type, but there's not really a better way to put it—whether you're surfing really fucked...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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How Ad Blockers Have Triggered an Arms Race on the Web
A team at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has conducted the first large-scale analysis of ad-block detection on the Internet.
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IBM Watson's Creative Director on Amazon Echo and How AI Can Save Lives
In an interview, Maya Weinstein, creative director at IBM Watson, discusses artificial intelligence assistants and how the technology can help save lives.
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A Car's Computer Can 'fingerprint' You in Minutes Based on How You Drive
Data collected from a car's internal computer network, or its CAN bus, can identify its driver based on driving style, a new study has found.
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A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa
Sidy Ndao aims to advance science, technology, engineering, and math skills in West Africa by organizing events such as the Pan-African Robotics Competition.
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Google nveils 'artificial Creativity'
Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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