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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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Have We Found Alien Life?
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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Taking the Census, With Cellphones
A new study by Belgian researchers demonstrates that big data analytics can turn cellphone records into highly granular population density data.
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Geospatial Data Project Puts Major Issues on the Map
A project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aims to create a Web-based system for hosting, processing, analyzing, and sharing geospatial data.
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A Peek Inside the Internet's Favorite File-Sharing Network
A new study takes a deep look at the behavior of users of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Researchers were able to track what sorts of media...
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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks
Researchers are developing programs and platforms that will ensure systems work despite power outages and other issues associated with mobility and connectivity...
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Tele-Robotics Puts Robot Power at Your Fingertips
Cyber-dogs could help address one of the more pressing challenges of our time, according to scientists at the recent Smart America Expo.
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Demonstrating a Driverless Future
Researchers say they have developed one of the most advanced autonomous vehicles ever designed.
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Artificial Brains Learn to Adapt
Researchers are studying a new type of spiking neural network that more closely mimics the behavioral learning processes of mammalian brains.
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A Face to Remember
Researchers have developed a way to change profile photos to highlight a person's most memorable facial features.
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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Termite-Inspired Robots Build With Bricks
Researchers have developed software that determines how autonomous robots can make specific structures by following the same set of rules.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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Which Genes Did We Get From Neandertals?
Tens of thousands of years ago along the balmy Mediterranean coast, or in some desert oasis in the Middle East, a hunky Neandertal male lusted after a modern human...
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Cyberwar Surprise Attacks Get a Mathematical Treatment
Two University of Michigan professors have written a mathematical model that could help predict the timing of cyberattacks.
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