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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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Future Shock: Inside Google's Smart City
Google is using a 12-acre plot on the outskirts of Toronto to build a city of the future.
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Battle for Connected Home Seizes the Stage at CES 2019
Last week's CES 2019 in Las Vegas showcased efforts by Google, Amazon, and Apple to advance connected home technology platforms.
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.
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S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
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Supercomputers: Battle of the Speed Machines
China is surging ahead of the United States in the race to build the world's fastest computers.
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Robotics: Androids Close the Gap With People
Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro recently led ATR in developing Elfoid P1, a prototype portable tele-operated android that is designed to convey the...
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Supercomputing's Exascale Arms Race
The United States wants to achieve exaflop speeds for supercomputing, but China, the European Union, India, Japan, and Russia also have set their sights on exascale...
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Futurephile: Knowledge Embedded in Everything
The day will come when everyone will wear glasses with a computer overlay capable of processing the faces of passersby and tell wearers if they have met someone...
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Speed Within Reach at Affordable Prices
Supercomputers have reached new power and performance benchmarks while also increasing their availability to businesses in the past year. In June, IBM's Roadrunner...12