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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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Beetle With Tiny Computer Backpack Is World's Smallest Cyborg Insect
Researchers in Singapore have developed the world's smallest cyborg insect, which they can control to move in four directions at the click of a button.
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Can Police Track You Through Your Cellphone Without a Warrant?
The U.S. Supreme Court confronts the digital age again on Wednesday when it hears oral arguments in a case that promises to have major repercussions for law enforcement...
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How an nderwater Sensor Network Is Tracking Argentina's Lost Submarine
On 15 November, Argentina's Navy lost contact with the ARA San Juan, a small diesel-powered submarine that had been involved in exercises off the east coast of...
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To Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage
For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well.
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Google's AI Can Now Spot Shoulder-Surfers Peeking at Your Screen
Google researchers have developed an "electronic screen protector" application that can immediately spot people glancing at a user's handheld screen.
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Lawrence Livermore's Newest and Fastest Supercomputer Is Taking Shape
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Livermore Computing Complex will be the home of the lab's newest high-performance supercomputer, scheduled for acceptance...
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AI-Controlled Brain Implants For Mood Disorders Tested in People
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...
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How the Pentagon Is Preparing For the Coming Drone Wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary...
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tc Students' Research Project Controls Drones sing Brainwaves
Researchers are developing a system in which a person can control multiple drones by thought alone.
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Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
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Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential
New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.
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How Traveling Back In Time Could Really, Physically Be Possible
It's one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time to alter the past.
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Nasa Links Port-City Sea Levels to Regional Ice Melt
A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula...
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New Way to Write Magnetic Info Could Pave the Way For Hardware Neural Networks
A new method for writing magnetic information in any pattern uses a very small magnetic probe known as a magnetic force microscope.
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Armed With Tough Computer Chips, Scientists Are Ready to Return to the Hell of Venus
Robot missions to Venus could become routine within the next decade by sending exploratory probes with highly durable computer chips that can handle the planet's...
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Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?
Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and...
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How Disinformation and Distortions on Social Media Affected Elections Worldwide
Internet freedom is on the decline for the seventh consecutive year as governments around the world take to distorting information on social media in order to influence...
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Breakthrough Could Launch Organic Electronics Beyond Cellphone Screens
An international team of researchers could advance the use of organic electronics by facilitating a breakthrough in organic semiconductors.
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Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality
By 2020, the reign of the von Neumann architecture will begin fading away after 75 years of dominance.
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