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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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Computational Learning Techniques Becoming Mainstream
Applying support vector machines to predictive analytics.
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Deciphering the Language of the Brain
Understanding how brains work is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our times, but despite the impression sometimes given in the popular press, researchers...
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Researchers Discover Malicious Computer Code
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers say they have discovered and traced six botnets by analyzing data collected from past cyberattacks.
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k Scientists Gain Licence to Edit Genes in Human Embryos
Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulators announced. The 1 February approval...
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A Search Engine For Your Memories
People are always forgetting names. That's because, at least in part, names are arbitrary. A name, in and of itself, doesn't offer much context.
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Sandy Selfie Sent from Nasa Mars Rover
The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples...
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New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds
U.S. intelligence agencies' persistent warning that encrypted communications will prevent them from tracking criminals is greatly distorted.
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Searching For a Fix to nreliable Nutritional Research
A $1-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant aims to improve the accuracy of food intake recording by using Google Glass to record what participants eat. ...
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Graduate Students Work to Help Make Voting Process Easier
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are working to enable anyone to rapidly fact-check politicians' claims.
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To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat
The future of artificial intelligence and its acceptance by people may lie in giving it the ability to master small talk, as embodied by Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot...
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Microsoft Plumbs Ocean's Depths to Test nderwater Data Center
A solution to the expensive requirement of cooling data-center servers could be found underwater.
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The Tech Giving People Power to Deal with Disability
In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.
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Scientists Decode Brain Signals Nearly at Speed of Perception
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception.
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New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres
A colorful new animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Babylonian Astronomers sed Geometry to Track Jupiter
A reanalysis of markings on Babylonian tablets has revealed that astronomers working between the fourth and first centuries bc used geometry to calculate the motions...
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Are We Thinking About Artificial Intelligence All Wrong?
Computer scientist and author Jerry Kaplan contends a rethink of artificial intelligence may be necessary.
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Companies Find Tech Talent in Robust Freelance Market
Companies are turning to private marketplaces of software developers to assemble teams for specific projects, rather than hiring permanent personnel.
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Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion
The AlphaGo program beat European Go champion Fan Hui in a series of five matches and achieved a 99.8-percent winning rate against other Go programs.
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