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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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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Crowdsourced Feedback Helps Train Robots
A reinforcement learning approach trains robots using crowdsourced feedback from nonexpert users.
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Photonic Chip 'Fits Together Like Lego'
A new compact silicon photonic semiconductor chip significantly expands radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth.
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Robot Can Tidy Up Clothes in a Messy Bedroom
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
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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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Camera Stops Deepfakes at the Shutter
Built-in content credentials verifies photos' authenticity.
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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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Drones with Defibrillators Are Saving Lives
Researchers found drones with automated external defibrillators arrived at the scene of a suspected cardiac arrest more than 3 minutes before ambulances in 67%...
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Synthetic Imagery Sets New Bar in AI Training Efficiency
A team of researchers demonstrated that training machine learning models with synthetic images can outperform traditional training methods using real images.
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