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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Speech Technology Enables Kids to Control Video Game
Researchers at Disney Research say their new keyword-spotting system works better with the video game "Mole Madness" than commercial speech-recognition systems....
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And The Winner Is...columbus!
Columbus, OH, claims the $50-million top spot in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.
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Smartphone Hacks 3D Printer By Measuring 'leaked' Energy and Acoustic Waves
State University of New York at Buffalo researchers say anyone with a smartphone could potentially steal intellectual property from a business' three-dimensional...
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Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray...
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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to help the FBI get into a mass murderer's iPhone last winter, he was hailed for his boldness in fighting the government on ...
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Your Car's New Software Is Ready. Update Now?
Tired of your vehicle and its aging, limited features? Don’t trade it in just yet. Download new software instead.
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Virginia Tech Initiative With Qualcomm to Expose Students to STEM
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and chip manufacturer Qualcomm have are opening a new Thinkabit lab at the university's Northern Virginia campus...
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CMU Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can perceive fraudsters hiding behind a digital veneer of legitimacy.
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Computers That Can Argue Will Be Satnav For the Moral Maze
Computers that formulate arguments could lead to "research engines" to inform decision-making across a wide range of fields.
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Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot By Playing Grand Theft Auto
Several research groups are using the "Grand Theft Auto" video game to educate algorithms with potential application to self-driving vehicle navigation.
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Are Fitness Trackers Fit For Security?
Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany investigating fraud opportunities within fitness trackers have detected serious security vulnerabilities...
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Scientific Visualizations: A Bridge to Knowledge
A conversation with Chris Johnson, founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
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Google's Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring Isis Recruits
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.
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How Satellite Imaging Will Revolutionize Everything from Stock Picking to Farming
When people say knowledge is power, they usually mean "money." Even the great scientist and innovator Galileo Galilei knew that.
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Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
New scenes from a frigid alien landscape are coming to light in recent radar images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Science Makes First Study of Know-It-All Internet Commenters
Researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft have conducted the first study of intransigent commenters in social networks.
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Judging a Book Through Its Cover
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology are designing an imaging system that can read closed books...
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Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding
New algorithms created by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers enable robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task...
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New 'gel' May Be Step Toward Clothing That Computes
A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has designed a model of a material capable of computational pattern recognition using an oscillating gel...
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