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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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How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back
"This is a final notice from the IRS."
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Here's Your Chance to Decode President Lincoln's Secret Messages
On April 12, 1865—three days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox and two days before President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated—the president sent...
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Too Cute For Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
Robot designers are developing robots that appear non-threatening, but can take action when humans attracted to their cuteness interfere with performance of their...
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How New Technology Is Illuminating a Classic Ethical Dilemma
On a pleaant Friday afternoon in April, the grassy quadrangle at the center of the Carnegie Mellon University campus is buzzing with activity.
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Researchers at schools such as the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing artificial intelligence to relieve the burden of teaching assistants.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
The next frontier for game-playing artificial intelligence could be the popular real-time strategy game "StarCraft."
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Tech Companies Help Women Get Back to Work
Technology companies are leveraging internships and other programs to help women return to work and update the skills they need to be competitive.
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Cern Is Seeking Secrets of the niverse, or Maybe Opening the Portals of Hell
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for another run at smashing particles together to unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Bitcoin Technology's Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a firm at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure, is about to give the technology behind bitcoin a big test: seeing...
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Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...
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Crowd Control? Baidu Has an Algorithm For That
Baidu's Big Data Lab has devised an algorithm that can predict crowd formation.
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App to Tackle Impact of Injuries on Nfl Players
Researchers last week rolled out a new smartphone app to enable former NFL players and the general public to collectively participate in a clinical study to evaluate...
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tah Republicans Open Caucuses to Online Voters
Utah residents this week will be able to cast ballots in the Republican presidential contest using computers, tablets, and smartphones, representing the largest...
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Chip Hacking Might Help Fbi nlock Iphones
Even if the Justice Department loses its legal showdown with Apple Inc. over access to a killer's iPhone, the government might still be able to extract the data...
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Tiny Cameras to See in the Intestines
The digestive tract can be inhospitable terrain to examine.
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Apple Case Highlights Struggles Cios Face in Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement Requests
As technology advances, there's a delicate balance between individual privacy and law enforcement’s requests for information.
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How the .s. Fights Encryption--and Also Helps Develop It
Some U.S. government agencies are financing the development of encryption technologies to protect communications even as others seek to circumvent them.
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