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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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The Timeline for Quantum Computing is Getting Shorter
New financial trading algorithms promise quantum- computer performance improvements over classical computers within 5-10 years, rather than 10-20.
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Endless Scrolling Through Social Media can Literally Make You Sick
Once mainly a scourge of VR headsets, cybersickness seems to be on the rise as the pandemic pushes our bodies to their digital limits.
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France Embraces Google, Microsoft in Quest to Safeguard Sensitive Data
The French government says Google and Microsoft cloud computing technology could be used to store sensitive state and corporate data, providing it is licensed to...
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Helping Drone Swarms Avoid Obstacles Without Hitting Each Other
A predictive control model allows individual drones to predict their own behavior and that of neighboring drones in a swarm, to keep them from bumping into each...
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Amazon Blocks Police from Using Its Facial Recognition Software Indefinitely
Amazon has indefinitely extended its ban on police use of its facial recognition software, which lawmakers and company employees have said discriminates against...
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Cryptography Experts Trash NFTs on First Day of RSA Conference
The experts have weighed in: Non-fungible tokens are dumb as hell.
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Beautiful or Handsome? Neural Language Models Try Their Hand at Word Substitution
Researchers had five neural language models compete in lexical substitution tasks, including plain substitution and word sense induction .
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Japan's Coronavirus Vaccine Booking System Crashes
Japan has inoculated just 2.8% of its population.
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Coding Bootcamps in the Time of COVID
Immersive coding schools have headed online, where their job orientation is more intense than ever.
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Intel's Cryogenic Chip Shows It Can Control Qubits Even in a Deep Freeze
Intel's researchers have proven that Horse Ridge could be used to control qubits directly next to the quantum processor.
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Police Departments Adopting Facial Recognition Tech Amid Allegations of Wrongful Arrests
U.S. police departments are adopting facial recognition technology, despite complaints of wrongful arrests as a result of its use.
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An Automated Box on Wheels—with Personality
People find boxy talking robots humorous and engaging, which may make robotic technology more acceptable in everyday life.
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The Way We Use Emojis Evolves Like Language, Changes Their Meaning
A study of emoji use over time found that their use and meaning evolves like language, with changes dictated by context.
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Simulating Sneezes, Coughs to Show How COVID-19 Spreads
Two groups of computer scientists created detailed simulations of droplets sprayed by coughs or sneezes, to demonstrate how COVID-19 spreads.
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Precise Touchscreens, Thanks to AI
A new artificial intelligence technique more precisely estimates where a finger touches a mobile phone screen, to reduce typing errors.
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The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios.
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AI, Drones Will Help Pin Down Sosnovsky's Hogweed
To monitor the spread of Sosnovsky's hogweed, scientists developed an artificial intelligence monitoring system that performs real-time image segmentation onboard...
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Ayanna Howard Named ACM Athena Lecturer
ACM has named Ayanna Howard, dean of the Ohio State University College of Engineering, its 2021-2022 ACM Athena Lecturer.
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Overcoming Tab Overload
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have found that tab overload is an issue for many people.
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