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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Instead of Robots Taking Jobs, AI May Help Humans Do Their Jobs Better
Oregon State University professor Tom Dietterich sees vast potential for collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), contrary to popular assumptions...
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Not Even the People Who Write Algorithms Really Know How They Work
Not only are the algorithms that determine what people see on the Web — search results, status updates, or product recommendations — inscrutable to users, the...
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Inside sc's Crazy Experimental Vr Lab
The technologies and techniques developed at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, launched in 1999 with a $45-million grant...
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Mental Health Apps Listen and Guide
Developments in portable devices and affective computing could help detect mental health issues earlier.
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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
August 11, the National Security Agency updated an obscure page on its website with an announcement that it plans to shift the encryption of government and military...
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King Man + Woman = Queen: The Marvelous Mathematics of Computational Linguistics
Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.
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Researchers at Western niversity Hope to se Artificial Intelligence to Improve Breast Cancer Patient Outcomes
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario believe artificial intelligence can help remove the guesswork from breast cancer treatment.
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Designing Electric and Magnetic Order For Low-Energy Computing
Researchers at the University of Liverpool say they have developed a new material that combines both electrical and magnetic order at room temperature.
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Nano-Trapped Molecules Are Potential Path to Quantum Devices
Researchers have determined how physicists could exploit a molecule's energy to advance computers and storage devices.
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Ethical Trials, Targeted Ads
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Philippe Rigollet and colleagues have developed an approach they say increases the effectiveness of online ads.
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New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous
Cornell Tech security researchers have built a free survey alternative which they say makes it mathematically impossible for anyone to identify respondents.
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Forget the Turing Test—there Are Better Ways of Judging AI
Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.
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Software Is Smart Enough For Sat, but Still Far From Intelligent
An artificial intelligence software program capable of seeing and reading has for the first time answered geometry questions from the SAT at the level of an average...
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Virtual Reality Gets Real
In 1965, Ivan Sutherland, a computer-graphics pioneer, addressed an international meeting of techies on the subject of virtual reality.
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France Is Now Censoring Your Google Search Results, Wherever You Are
The French now have the "right to be forgotten" worldwide.
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Women Leaders Cite Two Major Reasons For Issues Facing Women in Tech
During its recent 2015 Dreamforce conference, Salesforce launched its first Women's Leadership Summit.
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Researchers Develop Simple Way to Ward Off Trojan Attacks on Quantum Cryptographic Systems
Quantum key distribution is an emerging area of study in the effort to create secure computer messaging systems.
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Facebook's Cyborg Virtual Assistant Is Learning From Its Trainers
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...
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Key Benchtop Testing Planned For Wireless Brain Sensor
Researchers are starting to test wireless transmitter prototypes as part of the investigational BrainGate Neural Interface System.
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