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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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There Are More Programming Jobs Than Ever Outside of Silicon Valley
Programming jobs have spread across the U.S. and pooled in other metro areas outside of Silicon Valley, according to data from Glassdoor.
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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.
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Meet rduscript, the First rdu-Based Programming Language
UrduScript is a new programing language that makes it easier for beginners to learn programming concepts.
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The Data that Transformed AI Research, and Possibly the World
It's not about the algorithm.
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Scientists Build Dna from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
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Cpu Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Five Times the Computing Power
Researchers have developed a method to increase by the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed on a field-programmable gate array.
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Chaos Theory Strengthens Digital Locks
Researchers have definitively demonstrated the strength of a 128-bit digital lock for cybersecurity applications.
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CLA Research Offers Clearest Evidence of Long-Sought Majorana Particle
A research team has uncovered evidence for the existence of the Majorana particle.
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AI-Generated Map Predicts Who Will Die Next in 'game of Thrones'
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict which characters on "Game of Thrones" will die next.
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For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Researchers often call 2017 the year of the conversational computer in China.
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The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With Youtube
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands.
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Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But biomedical engineers are using the eyes to gain insight into the body.
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New Camera Designed By Stanford Researchers Could Improve Robot Vision and Virtual Reality
A new four-dimensional camera captures almost 140 degrees of information, with implications for robot visual perception and virtual reality.
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Neural Nets Model Audience Reactions to Movies
Disney researchers applied deep-learning neural networks to develop a new way of evaluating movie audiences' reactions using facial expressions.
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Reshaping Computer-Aided Design
Researchers have developed InstantCAD to facilitate interactive real-time editing, enhancement, and optimization of computer-aided design models via a simpler...
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...
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Three Icpc Finalists and the Tech Gender Gap
Three female participants of the 2017 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals consider their role in the contest, and in computer science....
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