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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.
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Nanophotonics Flattens Camera Lenses
Nanoscale meta-optics holds the promise of improved imaging while removing the bulges from smartphones.
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Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Reinforcement learning groups unlabeled data into sets of likes, with the goal of maximizing the cumulative rewards it receives from a human-wrought evaluation...
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Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid
Protecting electrical power delivery networks from incursions.
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Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones
Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.
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Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
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Bluetooth Security Challenged
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
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Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
Increasingly, sensors and other Internet of Things devices will be powered by ambient energies.
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Am I Getting Sick?
The future of over-the-counter at-home medical tests is trending toward multiple-malady detection.
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Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
While these breakthroughs must be considered proofs of concept, they demonstrate the pieces of future quantum datacenters are coming together, says independent...
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Confidential Computing Conquers Hacks
Protecting data while it is in use, rather than at rest or in flight.
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Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
The teams behind the real and virtual robots named as winners shared a total of $5 million in prize money.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Protecting Today from Tomorrow
Crafting more difficult algorithms to protect secrets so they are resilient to future quantum computers is creating, in effect, post-quantum cryptography.
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Programmable Trap Can Kill Viruses
Computational genetic engineering has enabled a method of "trapping" and killing viruses.
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Screen Recognition Makes Apps More Accessible
Apple's Screen Recognition algorithm identifies the metadata necessary to communicate the functions of any app or Web page to the visually impaired.
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Semantics Beats Syntax
IBM, Google, and Microsoft are all developing algorithms that understand the meaning of words.
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Democratizing Facial Authentication
Intel's RealSense ID solution performs facial identification on device, not in the cloud.
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DARPA's Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
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