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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Teaching A.i. Systems to Behave Themselves
At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes,...
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Inside the Increasingly Complex Algorithms That Get Packages to Your Door
If you had to hand-deliver 50 packages, how would you go about planning the best route?
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25 Years of Global Sea Level Data, and Counting
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel—a space "ship."
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How A.i. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
In the mid-1990s, Douglas Eck worked as a database programmer in Albuquerque while moonlighting as a musician.
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Plant Species For Science
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of Dna
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through...
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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
To an untrained AI, the world is a blur of confusing data streams.
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ta Researcher Seeks to Minimize Risks For nmanned Aerial Systems Over Populated Areas
A researcher will use a $550,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to quantify risks posed by unmanned aerial systems and create algorithms to reduce those...
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Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus
The longest amount of time that a spacecraft has survived on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes.
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How to Map the Circuits That Define S
Marta Zlatic owns what could be the most tedious film collection ever.
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Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI
When Jason Matheny joined the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a program manager in 2009, he made a habit of chatting to the organization's...
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National Ignition Facility Recreates the Interior of Heavy Stars
In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."
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New Clues to niverse's Structure Revealed
What is our universe made of, and has its composition changed over time?
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New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'skyrim' Nonplayer Characters
CIF-CK is a new artificial intelligence architecture program that uses social behavior models to make individual "Skyrim" non-player characters more reactive and...
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In Memoriam Peter Wegner: 1932-2017
Wegner made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming.
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New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Could the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets?
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Radio Navigation Set to Make Global Return as Gps Backup, Because Cyber
Way back in the 1980s, when I was a young naval officer, the Global Positioning System was still in its experimental stage.
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