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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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Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones.
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The Diy Electronics Transforming Research
A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...
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Nasa's Cassini Mission Prepares For 'grand Finale' at Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story.
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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
Google operates what is surely the largest computer network on Earth, a system that comprises custom-built, warehouse-sized data centers spanning 15 locations in...
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Understanding the Limits of Deep Learning
The capabilities of deep-learning neural networks are impressive, but these are tempered by significant constraints.
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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With New Technology, Mathematicians Turn Numbers Into art
Once upon a time, mathematicians imagined their job was to discover new mathematics and then let others explain it.
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New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target
Continuing on its path through the outer regions of the solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now traveled half the distance from Pluto—its storied first...
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Virginia Tech Researchers: Android Apps Can Conspire to Mine Information From Your Smartphone
Researchers say they have conducted the first-ever large-scale systematic study of how the trusty applications on Android phones are able to talk to one another...
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Trump Completes Repeal of Online Privacy Protections From Obama Era
President Trump on Monday signed a congressional resolution to complete the overturning of internet privacy protections created by the Federal Communications Commission...
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The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...
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Star Trek's Holodeck: From Science Fiction to a New Reality
Advances in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics are converging to make the Holodeck featured on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...
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Making America's Power Grid Much, Much Smarter
Researchers are working to reinvent and protect the U.S. power grid.
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Finding Faces in a Crowd
Researchers have developed an improved method for coding important context from an image that enables a significant advance in detecting tiny faces.
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
We are difficult for computers to understand.
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Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion
Canadian researchers have been behind some recent major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Now, the country is betting on becoming a big player in one of...
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Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits
The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished...
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Can Robots Write Meaningful News?
The new Digital Personalization of the News project will explore whether robots can enhance journalism.
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Faster Page Loads
Flowtune is a new system for allocating bandwidth in datacenter networks.
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