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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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How to Make Democracy Harder to Hack
With voting machines and related tools under threat by cybercriminals, the pressure is on to bolster the security of democratic infrastructure.
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How Tech Breakthroughs Can Shatter the Bonds of Poverty
Digital financial services can provide banking, insurance, and lending to the poor in emerging markets.
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Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data
Big data programming languages are gaining in importance because they enable the mining of massive datasets.
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Researchers, Automakers See No Quick Path to Secure Car Networks
The Automobile Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center recently published its best practices for securing vehicle computer systems.
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Ludwig the Robot Designed to Help Alzheimer's Patients
A walking, talking robot called Ludwig is envisioned as a tool to help people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive decline.
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How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn't There
Our machines are littered with security holes, because programmers are human.
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Now You See Me: True Invisibility Cloak Impossible to Build
Strike the invisibility cloak off your wish list. They are impossible to build for human-sized objects, says a new study.
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Meet The Woman Who Heads A Massively Influential All-Female Tech Team
New ACM president Vicki Hanson makes no secret of her desire to see many more women make their way into executive positions across the technology industry.
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Could Trashing Junk Proteins Quash Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Als and Huntington's?
Although clutter can be a nuisance, it does not typically pose a health threat—unless you're an aging neuron.
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Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays
Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful...
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Computing Study Refutes Famous Claim that 'information Is Physical'
As it turns out, information is not so physical after all.
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Nus in Quest to Create Next-Generation 'quantum Music'
High-frequency vibrations produced by cooled atoms can be translated into musical sounds audible to humans.
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Plumbing the Possibilities of 'seeing Around Corners'
Researchers are exploring the possibilities of using scattered-light technology to recreate images hidden from a human line of sight.
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First Major Database of Non-Native English
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have issued the first major database of fully annotated English sentences written by non-native English...
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Selfie Righteous: New Tool Corrects Angles and Distances in Portraits
A new tool can correct distortions in self-portrait photographs by making a subject's face appear as if it were photographed from a longer distance or a different...
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Machines v. Hackers: Cybersecurity's Artificial Intelligence Future
Experts predict machines will perform increasingly complex cybersecurity operations over time, reducing the need for humans and facilitating a paradigm shift in...
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Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award For Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing
2016 Richard Tapia Achievement Award Recipient: Dr. David Patterson
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Australia Plans New Co-Ordinates to Fix Sat-Nav Gap
Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
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Planet Hunters Seek New Ways to Detect Alien Life
In the search for life beyond Earth, false alarms abound.
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