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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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Enhanced 'Listening Skill' Makes Robot Better at Talking
Researchers have improved the ability of a conversational human-like robot to have a natural dialogue with people by enhancing its listening skills.
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A Great Find
A new algorithm locates objects by leveraging collections of sensors that receive and transmit signals.
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The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
Have you had your genome sequenced yet? Millions of people around the world already have, and by 2025 that number could reach a billion.
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Asteroid Ryugu Poses Landing Risks for Japanese Mission
After inspecting asteroid Ryugu for two months, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed the sites where the Hayabusa2 spacecraft will touchdown...
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Quantum Bugs, Meet Your New Swatter
Rice University researchers have developed a diagnostic tool for quantum computers.
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Kids Connect With Robot Reading Partners
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a robot to serve as a reading partner for middle school students.
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Fake News Detector Algorithm Works Better Than a Human
An algorithm-based system that identifies linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregators and social media sites with a new weapon against misinformation...
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Robotic Implants
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
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A Monitor's ltrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What's on the Screen
You probably assume that someone can only see what's on your computer screen by looking at it.
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A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...
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A 'GPS for Inside Your Body'
A new "in-body global-positioning system" can locate ingestible implants within the body using low-power wireless signals.
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Researchers Reveal New Online ser Tracking Techniques
Researchers have identified online user tracking techniques that cannot be blocked by browsers' built-in anti-tracking defenses or existing anti-tracking and ad...
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Wireless Communication Breaks Through Water-Air Barrier
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...
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15 Years in Space for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime—and is still going strong after...
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Future Robot Swarms Should Copy Lazy Ants Who Let Others Do the Work
Researchers found insights into ant cooperation could be incorporated into the development of large swarms of robots.
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'Weaponized Ad Technology': Facebook's Moneymaker Gets a Critical Eye
Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages.
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This Military Tech Could Finally Help Self-Driving Cars Master Snow
The research conducted at the country's National Laboratories is usually highly classified and specifically aimed at solving national security problems. But sometimes...
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Mobile App Extends Smartphone Battery 10-25%
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed a mobile app that purportedly reduces the energy consumption of Android smartphones.
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As Cars Collect More Data, Companies Try to Move It All Faster
Cars need to get faster—not on the road, but on the inside.
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