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Better Sensors For Medical Imaging, Contraband Detection
MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It could lead to miniaturized...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Crowdsourced Tool For Depression
A new peer-to-peer networking tool enables people suffering from anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic methods.
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Better Debugger
Researchers last week unveiled a new algorithm for identifying integer-overflow bugs.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles—a technique allowing direct...
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device For the Blind
Researchers have developed a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually impaired users.
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Quantum Sensor's Advantages Survive Entanglement Breakdown
MIT researchers have demonstrated that entanglement can improve the performance of optical sensors, even when it does not survive light's interaction with the environment...
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...
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Radio Chip For the "internet of Things"
A new wireless transmitter design reduces off-state leakage 100-fold while providing adequate power for Bluetooth or 802.15.4 transmissions.
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...
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Can an Led-Filled "robot Garden" Make Coding More Accessible?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say their new tablet-operated system serves as a visual embodiment of their latest work in distributed computing...
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Smarter Multicore Chips
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...
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Parallelizing Common Algorithms
Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer’s memory.
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Qubits With Staying Power
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable the indefinite extension of quantum-secured communication links.
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Optimizing Optimization Algorithms
Researchers have presented a way to generate a sequence of simplified functions that ensure the best approximation optimization algorithms can offer.
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Optimizing Optimization Algorithms
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...
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Vision System For Household Robots
A new algorithm can aggregate perspectives and recognize four times as many objects as one that uses a single perspective, while reducing misidentifications.
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Vision System For Household Robots
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.
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