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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What Advanced Tech Will Dominate Your Car By 2025? IBM Knows
An IBM study on the future of automotive technologies found self-healing cars and connections to the Internet of Things are the wave of the future.
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Crystal-Rich Rock 'mojave' Is Next Mars Drill Target
A rock target where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is using its sample-collection drill this week may have a salty story to tell.
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Stanford Physicists Predict Dangerous Solar Flares
Stanford University researchers have automated analysis of the largest-ever set of solar observations to forecast solar flares using data from the Solar Dynamics...
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Advanced 3D Facial Imaging May Aid in Early Detection of Autism
Researchers at the University of Missouri have used advanced three-dimensional imaging to identify the facial traits of children with autism.
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The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
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Nasa and Esa Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate.
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Death By Robot
Many roboticists are realizing autonomous robots inevitably will find themselves in situations that require a moral judgment.
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Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...
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We Know How You Feel
Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963.
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Machines Teach Astronomers About Stars
Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our galaxy and learn their sizes, compositions and other basic traits.
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Black Phosphorous—the Birth of a New Wonder Material
In the last few years, two-dimensional crystals have emerged as some of the most exciting new materials to play with.
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Nissan, Nasa Team Up For Self-Driving Car Tech
Nissan and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration have announced a five-year research and development partnership to produce an autonomous vehicle...
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Can the Government Ban Encryption?
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...
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IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.
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Vision System For Household Robots
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.
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The Algorithm That Unscrambles Fractured Images
Take a hammer to a mirror and you will fracture the image it produces as well as the glass.
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Nasa Mars Rover Opportunity Climbs to High Point on Rim
After completing two drives this week, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has paused to photograph the panoramic vista from the highest point the rover has...
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Robots Are Sneaking p On Congress (along with Four Other Tech Trends)
One of the best Twitter accounts inside the Beltway or out—belongs to former representativeJohn Dingell (D-Mich.), who announced his retirement with self-effacing...
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