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New Tech Uses Hardware, Software to Train Dogs More Efficiently
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a customized suite of technologies that enables a computer to autonomously train a dog.
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Bypassing Rare Minerals
A Japanese team proposes an alternative to increasingly rare earths.
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Headaches Likely to Grow Over Auto Cybersecurity Concerns
Issues related to automobile cybersecurity are likely to increase, but U.S. auto cybersecurity standards are not expected until at least 2018.
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Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
If you've ever run a business, whether it's an ice cream shop or a Fortune 500 company, then you've probably kept a ledger.
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Promoting Women in Science
Utrecht University professor Lynda Hardman discusses the pressing need to promote participation of women in science in the Netherlands.
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Hacking Into Homes: 'smart Home' Security Flaws Found in Popular System
University of Michigan researchers have developed a way to hack into the leading "smart home" automation system and get the PIN code to a home's front door.
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New Health Sensing Tool Measures Lung Function Over a Phone Call, From Anywhere in the World
University of Washington researchers have developed a health-sensing tool that can accurately measure lung function over a phone call.
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Women in Tech Band Together to Track Diversity, After Hours
Eight prominent women activists from Silicon Valley have unveiled the Project employee diversity campaign.
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Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Researchers have developed a "myoelectric" haptic system designed to work with a prosthetic hand.
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Machines Can Learn to Respond to New Situations Like Human Beings Would
KU Leuven researchers have shown machines can learn to respond to unfamiliar objects like a human would.
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Scientists Teaching Machines to Make Clinical Trials More Successful
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are using machine-learning technology to find better ways to recruit patients for clinical trials.
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The Government Wants Your Fingerprint to nlock Your Phone. Should that Be Allowed?
As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, federal officials were quietly waging a different...
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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Thinking Outside the Sample
Researchers have developed a framework they say could help computers learn how to process and identify images faster and more accurately.
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Ai, Md: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way Illness Is Diagnosed and Treated
Frost & Sullivan's Venkat Rajan observes the concept of artificial intelligence in healthcare has entered reached "early-stage commercialization, adoption, and...
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Asc16 Student Supercomputer Challenge Results Are In
The top prize in the Asia Supercomputer Community's 2016 Student Supercomputer Challenge went to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology team.
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Q&a: Python Creator Guido Van Rossum on How He Got His Start in Programming
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the world’s most popular programming languages.
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Vint Cerf: Buggy Software Is Scarier Than A Robot Takeover
Google’s chief Internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, said he has no fear of a robotic overthrow, because artificial intelligence is not that sophisticated.
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