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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Smartphone, MD: Going Viral
A smartphone application and laboratory kit can diagnose COVID-19, COVID variants, and flu virus infections.
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Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term 'Self-Driving'
That's Tesla's mess to deal with.
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Robot Performs Keyhole Surgery on Pigs
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University programmed a robot to perform minimally invasive keyhole surgery on pigs.
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IRS Wants to Scan Your Face
By this summer, Americans wanting to access their Internal Revenue Service records online will be required to submit a facial video to confirm their identity.
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What Does a Forehand Winner Sound Like? Clink, Blip-Blip-Blip!
At the Australian Open tennis tournament, new technology is translating the movement of the ball into sounds to help blind and low-vision fans follow the action...
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Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
The tech industry has grown rich off big ideas developed more than a decade ago. New things like quantum computing and self-driving cars could take a while.
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Facebook's Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets
Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million.
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Quantum Computers a Million Times Too Small to Hack Bitcoin
Bitcoin is theoretically vulnerable to hacking by quantum computers, but calculations show they would need to be a million times larger than those that exist today...
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AI Model Helps Discover Causes of Motor Neuron Disease
A new machine learning model has identified 690 risk genes for motor neuron disease.
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Engineers Build Molecular Framework to Bridge Experimental, Computer Sciences for Peptide-Based Materials Engineering
Engineers have closed the gap between experimental and computer sciences to better predict peptide structures with a molecular framework.
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I.M.F. Urges El Salvador to End its Embrace of Crypto as Bitcoin Tumbles.
The price of Bitcoin has fallen more than 50% from its peak in November, which could prove costly for institutions that have bought into digital currencies.
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Researchers Use Mobile Device Data to Predict COVID-19 Outbreaks
Yale School of Public Health researchers used location information from mobile devices to accurately forecast COVID-19 outbreaks in Connecticut municipalities. ...
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Flaws Plague Tool Meant to Help Low-Risk Federal Prisoners Win Early Release
The U.S. Department of Justice found persistent flaws in an algorithm used to qualify low-risk federal prisoners for early release.
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AI Can Analyze Eye Scans To Identify Risk of Heart Attack
The system—which has 70% to 80% accuracy—predicts if patients are at risk of a heart attack over the next year.
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White House Expects Global Chip Shortage to Last at least Another Six Months
"Congress must act," said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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Google Kills Off FLoC, Replaces It With Topics
FLoC, Google's project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising, is dead.
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Robot Umpires at Home Plate Moving Up to Triple-A for 2022
Major League Baseball is extending its automated strike zone test to Triple-A, the highest minor-league level, for 2022.
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Controlling Complex Systems with AI
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can solve complex control problems.
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Artificial Intelligence: Digital Pen Helps People Learn to Write
Teachers are given more freedom for creative and communicative tasks.
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