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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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Iarpa Preps Insider Threat-Monitoring Projects
The U.S. intelligence community wants to develop insider threat-monitoring systems and new techniques for predicting cyberattacks.
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Self-Powered Sensors That Communicate Could Warn of Bridge, Building Defects
Researchers are developing technology that would enable a bridge, dam, or building to sense a defect and alert officials before something bad occurs.
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One Thousand Genes You Could Live Without
Researchers have unveiled the largest ever set of full genomes from a single population: Iceland.
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Computer Science Surge Sparks Campus Building Boom
Colleges and universities across the U.S. have been building new facilities to keep up with expanding science, technology, engineering, and math programs.
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Machine Consciousness: Big Data Analytics and the Internet of Things
During my visit to General Electric's Global Research Centers in San Ramon, California, and Niskayuna, New York, last month, I got what amounts to an end-to-end...
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Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically seful Nitrogen on Mars
A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from...
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Five Medieval Alternatives to Sat Nav
During the Middle Ages, the Vikings set sail in longships to raid faraway settlements and plunder their riches, but how did they find their way?
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Extreme Cryptography Paves Way to Personalized Medicine
The dream for tomorrow's medicine is to understand the links between DNA and disease—and to tailor therapies accordingly.
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on the Apple Watch, Electric Cars, and the Surpassing of Humanity
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is concerned about what rapid advancements in artificial intelligence will mean for the future of humanity.
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Obama, Wowed By Young Scientists, Announces New STEM Pledges
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday announced more than $240 million in pledges to boost the study of science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Better Debugger
Researchers last week unveiled a new algorithm for identifying integer-overflow bugs.
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Smarter Smart Grids
North Carolina State University researchers are using cloud computing resources to analyze smart grid data.
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Me, Myself, and Icub: Meet the Robot With a Self
Researchers at the University of Sheffield's Sheffield Robotics program are trying to give their iCub robot an artificial "self."
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How Crashing Drones Are Exposing Secrets About .s. War Operations
Crashing drones are spilling secrets about U.S. military operations.
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Rewriting the Rules of Turing's Imitation Game
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.
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Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM A.m. Turing Award
MIT’s Stonebraker brought relational database systems from concept to commercial success.
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The Waves of the Future May Bend Around Metamaterials
Plastics. Computers. Metamaterials?
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
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Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet
Jason Mars built his own Siri and then he gave it away.
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