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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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Google DeepMind Used a Large Language Model to Solve an Unsolvable Math Problem
They had to throw away most of what it produced, but there was gold among the garbage.
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NOAA's Older Earth-Watching Satellites Get 'Extended Life'
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use a cloud-based system to extend the life of polar-orbiting satellites slated for decommissioning.
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AI Turns Thoughts into Text
A portable, non-invasive system can transform an individual's thoughts into text.
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Apple's iMessage Block of Beeper Mini Just Part of Bigger Blue/Green Bubble Saga
Apple takes preventative measures to protect its customers. Beeper claims Apple's latest move does just the opposite.
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The Year A.I. Ate the Internet
Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and collaborate with robots.
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VR Goggles for Mice Create Immersive Scenarios for Brain Research
Northwestern University researchers developed virtual reality goggles for mice.
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Engineers Design Robotic Replica of the Heart's Right Chamber
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle.
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Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Hanan Samet was honored with the inaugural Lifetime Impact Award from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL).
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A Drone with Ears
Researchers developed a microphone array that can be added to drones, along with cameras, to help locate disaster victims.
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Network of Robots Monitors Pipes Using Acoustic Wave Sensors
Researchers showed that guided acoustic wave sensors can enable networks of independent robots to inspect large pipe structures for defects.
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Wearable Communication System Could Reduce Digital Health Divide
University of Arizona (UA) researchers developed a wearable monitoring system that can send health data up to 15 miles without major infrastructure.
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Magnetic Revolution: Diamonds and Rust Rewrite Physics Textbooks
The researchers observed that magnetic monopoles in hematite emerge through the collective behavior of many spins (the angular momentum of a particle).
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Researchers Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'
Scientists taught an algorithm to better predict an individual's tastes in wines.
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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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AI Detects Methane Plumes from Space
A new machine learning tool uses data from hyperspectral satellites to automatically detect methane plumes from space.
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Immersive Engagement in Mixed Reality Measured with Reaction Time
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers found that reaction time potentially could be used to measure presence (immersive engagement) with mixed reality...
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Canadian Government Reaches Deal with Google on Online News Act
The agreement comes three weeks before the Online News Act rules come into force.
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6G Could Pull Double Duty to Monitor Climate Change
Northeastern University researchers said over-the-air spectroscopy could enable next-generation 6G networks to monitor climate change and air pollution.
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