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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Tech Experts Predict What 2025 Will Look Like
A World Economic Forum report contains predictions about what impacts technology will have on the world by 2025.
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Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.
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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it.
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Scientists Propose App That Detects Emotions Based on Walking Style
Researchers at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are developing a methodology to identify a person's emotional state based on the way they walk.
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Can Software Suffer? Death and Pain in Digital Brains
The ability to digitally simulate physical systems such as the brain to avoid the ethical dilemmas of experimentation on living subjects creates new dilemmas.
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Learning Spoken Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can learn to distinguish spoken words.
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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First Detailed Public Map of .s. Internet Backbone Could Make It Stronger
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...
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The Oil-Rich City Betting on Drones
Over the PA system a voice tells us not to be alarmed. What we are about to see is just a demonstration, courtesy of the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of the Interior...
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Vint Cerf Wants Your Help Re-Imagining the Internet
Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf is starting a new project to solicit ideas from the public about how to improve the Internet...
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Get Ready to Live in a Trillion-Device World
University of California, Berkeley professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli predicts the world will be completely suffused with tiny sensors within 10 years.
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New Wearable Technology Can Sense Appliance se, Help Track Carbon Footprint
University of Washington researchers have developed wearable technology that can sense what devices and vehicles the user interacts with throughout the day.
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Fortifying Computer Chips For Space Travel
Computer chips used in spaceships need to be robust to withstand excessive radiation from high-energy sources such as the sun or cosmic rays.
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Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.s. Over Data Access
In an investigation involving guns and drugs, the Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages...
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How International Monitors Spot Nukes and Other Rumblings
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...
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You Aren't Good Enough to Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy Football
Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.
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Online Security Braces For Quantum Revolution
Encryption fix begins in preparation for arrival of futuristic computers.
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Animators Turn to Motion Capture Tech For Better Results
Researchers at the University of Bradford are presenting their work in motion-capture technology at the upcoming British Science Festival.
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