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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm
About 150 Jersey cows in the rolling terrain at Rivendale Farms in Bulger, some 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, wear Fitbit-like collars that monitor their movement...
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With Drone Deliveries on the Horizon, Europe Moves to Set Ground Rules
A group of companies are testing unmanned aviation technology to prove drones can fly delivery routes without crashing into each other, and that they can be tracked...
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field.
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Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
Lawrence Roberts insisted that engineers look for practical uses for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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A Robotic Hand Plays the Piano With a More Human Touch
Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can play the piano.
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A Toaster on Wheels to Deliver Groceries? Self-Driving Tech Tests Practical ses
Slow uptake of driverless passenger services is spurring the autonomous industry to experiment with offerings like food deliveries from small, self-driving vehicles...
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This Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
Cornell Tech's reputation for producing skilled technology graduates played a decisive role in Amazon's decision to build its new headquarters in New York City....
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AI as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay
Companies are turning to services that use artificial intelligence to vet potential hires amid a tight labor market.
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Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor
Berezin built and marketed the first computerized word processor.
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Smart Headlights Inch Closer to American Roads
Adaptive driving beam headlights are not currently permitted in the U.S., but that could soon change.
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Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver
Jouarre, a nursing facility outside Paris, is using a robot to help care for elderly patients.
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As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
In response to the diminishing supply of immigrant labor, the U.S. agriculture sector is increasingly turning to robots that can do the work traditionally done...
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How Will We Outsmart AI Liars?
The advancement of machine learning via neural networks is stoking concerns of artificial intelligence being used for mass manipulation and misinformation.
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Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence
Google researchers have unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can complete English sentences with human-like accuracy.
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How Cheap Labor Drives China's A.I. Ambitions
Some of the most critical work in advancing China's technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the middle of the country's heartland, far from the...
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Learning to Attack the Cyberattackers Can't Happen Fast Enough
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute aims to expand the boundaries of technology and protect people when that technology or its users...
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Discussion topics included counterterrorism, data breaches, and surveillance.
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