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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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Future Wearable Device Could Tell How We Power Human Movement
A new technology could one day help tell whether tendon injuries are sufficiently healed for people to resume normal activities.
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The Search for niversal Memory
The search for a universal memory is aimed at ultimately replacing the entire computer memory hierarchy with a single technology.
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Cracking the Crypto War
On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino,...
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Who Controls Your Data?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
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Gaia Creates Richest Star Map of Our Galaxy - and Beyond
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen...
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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MoS2 Transistor Can Be sed in Bendable OLED Displays
Researchers at Korea's Yonsei and Chung-Ang universities have developed a molybdenum disulfide transistor that can be used in bendable OLED displays.
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Celestial 'Snow' Flies in Wondrous Rosetta Comet GIF
You'll never stand on the surface of a comet, but here's how it might look and feel.
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Heat-Seeking Cameras Could Help Keep Self-Driving Cars Safe
After Uber's fatal self-driving crash last month in Tempe, Arizona, most observers had two basic question: Why did the car not see Elaine Herzberg crossing the...
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Enigma Machine Collection Recalls Computer Science Victory
Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.
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Shrinking Machines, Cellular Computers
Scientists are using DNA and RNA to build the world's tiniest robots and computing devices.
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Chips Down: China Aims to Boost Semiconductors as Trade War Looms
Now, as a trade war with the United States looms, a government decision to accelerate the development of the domestic chip industry underlines how far those goals...
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Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own
A team of researchers has developed a new class of soft robot that can adapt to the environment.
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Integrating Optical Components Into Existing Chip Designs
A new method uses existing manufacturing processes to build optics and electronics separately on-chip.
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FDA moves to require patching in connected medical devices
The organization is also looking at launching a public-private safety board to provide analysis and field expertise in a range of technological and clinical subject...
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Flu Virus Finally Sequenced in Its Native Form
The genome of the flu virus has been fully sequenced in its native RNA form for the first time. Previously, all influenza genomes—as well as those of other viruses...
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Flexible TVs, High-Performance Wearable Smart Tech One Step Closer
Researchers in the U.K. and China have developed a nanoscale transistor that could be used in flexible televisions, tablets, and phones, as well as in wearable...
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Sony, Carnegie Mellon Form Partnership to Research Cooking Robots
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to improve food preparation, cooking, and delivery.
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Made in China 2025: Beijing's Big Ambitions from Robots to Chips
China is looking to catch up with rivals like the United States and Germany in high-end technology, making a major push with a "Made in China 2025" strategy that...
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