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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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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
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Signs of Ancient Mars Lakes and Quakes Seen in New Map
Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from "marsquakes" shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes.
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Watson Wannabes: 4 Open Source Projects For Machine Intelligence
Four groups have been developing IBM Watson-like systems based on open source work.
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Optical Illusions Fool Computers Into Seeing Things
University of Wyoming researchers are studying algorithms working together that may resulting in a program that could generate creative pictures by itself.
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Ccc Brain Workshop: Research Interfaces Between Brain Science and Computer Science
A recent workshop on the interfaces between brain research and computer science brought together neuroscientists and computer scientists over speeches and panel...
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Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Threat – Yet
New York University professor Gary Marcus says "superintelligent" machines are unlikely to arrive soon, but we already place a great deal of power in the hands...
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Aiming For 1 Million 'girls Who Code'
Women are the majority in the workforce, in college, and as income earners, but they are being left out of innovating, says Reshma Saujani, who wants to introduce...
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Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
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The Surprising ses of Games Controllers
Games controllers can end up in the strangest places.
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Opals: Light Beams Let Data Rates Soar
You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload...
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Data From Our Wearables Is Now Courtroom Fodder
Courtrooms typically lag in technological innovation.
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Two Robots, One Challenge, Endless Possibility
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing robots that can enter dangerous places.
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Jesse Jackson Gets Silicon Valley to Talk Diversity
Technology industry representatives attended a summit on diversity in the tech workforce organized by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition and hosted by Intel...
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee: The Hidden Cost of Mass Surveillance
Sir Tim Berners-Lee this week discussed the need for governments to end mass online surveillance.
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers say they have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate.
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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Media Portrayals of Women in Tech: Google Joins Nonprofits to Drive Change
Google has joined with two nonprofits to create a new award for the best media portrayal of women in technology.
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An Interface For Tracking Botnets That's Fit For a Sci-Fi Starship
What do you get when you ask a bunch of digital artists to dream up a state-of-the-art tool for fighting cybercrime?
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