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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Buyer Beware: Hollywood Special Effects Now Permeate Property Listings
Computer-generated imagery traditionally reserved for Hollywood has now become so cheap and easy to use that home sellers are digitally revising their online listings...
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SpaceX Crew Capsule, With Dummy Astronaut, Docks With Space Station
A SpaceX capsule autonomously docked with the International Space Station.
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On-Demand Grandkids, Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay
Companies are offering seniors high-tech solutions and novel services to combat loneliness.
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Mercedes Enlists Quantum Computing to Build a Better Electric Vehicle Battery
Mercedes-Benz is exploring how quantum computers could be used to discover new materials for advanced batteries in electric cars.
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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook
Facebook collects sensitive data from at least 11 popular smartphone apps seconds after users enter it.
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A Crucial Step for Averting AI Disasters
Although technology companies are trying to recruit women and minorities, most computer and software professionals writing artificial intelligence programs remain...
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Pentagon Drafts AI to Fight Wildfires
The Pentagon has launched a program to use artificial intelligence to analyze data collected by drones to improve how wildfires are fought.
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The Internet, Divided Between .S. and China, Has Become Battleground
The global Internet is splitting in two between China and most of the rest of the world.
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Apple Exerts Power as Privacy Protector
Apple has penalized Google and Facebook for violating its developer policies controlling personal data by suspending internal apps used by both companies.
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Inside Google's Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers
Google's Threat Analysis Group is an in-house counterespionage unit committed to keeping sensitive online information safe from hackers and spies.
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Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype
After years of hype, autonomous vehicle developers are taking a more cautious approach in the wake of a number of crashes.
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FAA Proposes More Commercial Drone Operations at Night and Over People
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released preliminary rules to allow small drones to fly routinely over crowds of people at night.
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Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots
A hotel in Japan hyped as the world's first robot-staffed hotel has eliminated more than half of its robots due to mounting complaints.
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In Fast-Aging Japan, Elder Care Is a High-Tech Pursuit
Startups are putting new innovations to work in Japan's elder-care market.
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Why Your Ice Cream Will Ride in a Self-Driving Car Before You Do
Autonomous vehicles that transport people get lots of media coverage, but autonomous delivery could transform all of retail long before self-driving cars actually...
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AI Helps Auto-Loan Company Handle Industry's Trickiest Turn
Prestige Financial Services is among a growing number of lenders using artificial intelligence to digest increasing volumes of data to determine creditworthiness...
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Miners Dig AI but the Gold Rush Hasn't Come
Despite expectations by the mining industry that artificial intelligence would transform operations, some experts consider that promise overhyped and unrealistic...
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The Making of a Computer-Generated Influencer
Miquela Sousa is a computer-generated character developed as a social media personality that can evolve with the times without aging.
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Robot Reality Check: They Create Wealth--and Jobs
A new Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report says U.S. adoption of automation is lagging behind that of other countries.
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