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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed
Today in the skies over New Mexico, Air Force students are practicing for the kill.
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Chatbots Take Off
Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.
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It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless niverse
Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top?
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Research Examines Global Security and Surveillance Technologies
Government efforts to fight crime using surveillance and information technologies often yield poor results, says University of Colorado Denver professor Keith Guzik...
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For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created carbon nanotube transistors that offer performance superior to their silicon counterparts.
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A Data-Cleaning Tool For Building Better Prediction Models
Researchers at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley have developed software to replace humans in the most error-prone steps of cleaning...
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Iowa State Engineers Treat Printed Graphene With Lasers to Enable Paper Electronics, Devices
An Iowa State University team says it has developed a new way to use inkjet printers to print multi-layer graphene circuits and electrodes.
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Nasa Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System's Roots
For the next two years, NASA's latest robotic spacecraft will be chasing down an asteroid near Earth in the hopes of scooping up some of the most primordial bits...
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Towards the Workplace of the Future--With Virtual Reality
Business and academic experts this week will present the latest on augmented and virtual reality at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology conference...
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Mars Contamination Fear Could Divert Curiosity Rover
Four years into its travels across Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover faces an unexpected challenge: wending its way safely among dozens of dark streaks that could indicate...
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Cars Connected to Smartphones
Researchers at New York and George Mason universities have found vulnerabilities in a system of rules that enable vehicles to communicate with smartphones.
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A Proactive Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Cybersecurity
The European Union is funding two projects devoted to developing new cybersecurity paradigms, architectures, and software.
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Artificial Intelligence: Are We Facing a Future of Robots Running Wild?
The University of Southern California Center on Artificial Intelligence for Social Solutions studies how AI can be utilized to address a wide range of social problems...
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Plastic Crystals Could Improve Fabrication of Memory Devices
Plastic crystals with ferroelectric properties could accelerate the development of additional flexible and cost-efficient materials for use in electronic devices...
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'hello Human, How Are You?' When Robots Observe Their Operators
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Information Processing and Ergonomics have developed a system in which robots observe humans.
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.
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Xsede 2.0: The Nsf Doubles Down
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $110 million to the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
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