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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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Graph Matching in Theory and Practice
A theoretical breakthrough in graph isomorphism excites complexity experts, but will it lead to any practical improvements?
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Accelerating Search
The latest in machine learning helps high-energy physicists handle the enormous amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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Booming Enrollments
The Computing Research Association works to quantify the extent, and causes, of a jump in undergraduate computer science enrollments.
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Legal Advice on the Smartphone
New apps help individuals contest traffic, parking tickets.
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Quantum Computer Makes First High-Energy Physics Simulation
Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment—the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles—on a quantum...
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The Future of Work Is ... Bleak
Moshe Y. Vardi says we can expect the next 35 years to be as harsh on working-class people as the last 35 years have been.
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Nasa Scientists Discover nexpected Mineral on Mars
Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved.
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Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire—forever.
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Drivers, These Robots Have Your Back
Automated safety systems can prevent an accident before the driver is even aware of the possibility.
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MIT AI System Predicts When People Will Kiss, Hug, or Shake Hands
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an artificial intelligence that can accurately predict human interactions.
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Vulnerabilities in Internet Encryption Protocol
Successful test attacks against the Transport Layer Security Internet encryption protocol generated data that will be incorporated into the latest TLS iteration...
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Professor's Work Focuses on Revving p Our Highest-Speed Networks
The research of University of Virginia professor Malathi Veeraraghavan could help the latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories each their full potential...
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Report: California Colleges Produce Low Number of STEM Graduates
California has far fewer students graduating with science, technology, engineering, and math degrees from public colleges and universities than the state's businesses...
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the S Even Further Behind
This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.
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'ransomware' Cyberattack Highlights Vulnerability of niversities
The first Patrick Feng knew about a cyberattack on his university was when one of his colleagues told him that her computer had been infected by hackers and rendered...
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The Future of the Internet Is at Risk Say Global Web Experts
The Internet has reached a turning point, and action must be taken quickly to ensure its continued openness, security, transparency, and inclusivity via improved...
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Ethnic, Gender Imbalances Plague Computer Science Education
The U.S. Education Department's Melissa Moritz suggests conscious or unconscious bias discourages female and minority students from pursuing computer science careers...
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World's First 1,000-Processor Chip
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have designed a microchip that contains 1,000 independently programmable processors.
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