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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A New Test For Life on Other Planets
A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets.
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New Project to Boost Sat Nav Positioning Accuracy Anywhere in the World
The University of Nottingham in the U.K. will participate in a four-year project using Global Navigation Satellite Systems to establish an architecture for the...
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Monero, the Drug Dealer's Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire
For the cryptocurrency community, 2016 was a very good year.
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Neuroscience: Big Brain, Big Data
As big brain-mapping initiatives go, Taiwan's might seem small.
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The AI that Learns Our Habits and Knows When People Cheat
For people who play the video game Counter Strike online, it's hard enough watching your back at the best of times. In the fast-paced first-person shooter, there...
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Your (social Media) Votes Matter
A recent study demonstrates how a single up/down vote on Reddit dictates the content users see on the site.
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D-Wave pgrade: How Scientists Are sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...
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US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search in Any Language
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the US Intelligence Community’s own science and technology research arm, has announced it is seeking...
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Brief Interventions Help Online Learners Persist With Coursework, Stanford Research Finds
Assuring learners from less-developed countries they belong and affirming their core values can help them succeed in massive open online courses, according to a...
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Smart Automation
Researchers at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...
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Your Android Device's Pattern Lock Can Be Cracked Within Five Attempts
Researchers have found attackers can crack Android's Pattern Lock security system within five attempts by using video and computer-vision software.
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Hipeac Vision Report Advocates Reinvention of Computing
The European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, or HiPEAC, on Monday published a report calling for "the reinvention of computing...
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Legal Battle Over Overseas Microsoft Data Could Be Headed For Supreme Court
A federal appeals court is letting stand a ruling in a closely watched case holding that Microsoft need not comply with a U.S. government demand for data stored...
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Noaa's Goes-16 Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for...
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Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized
Whether personally or professionally, Daniel Kronauer of Rockefeller University is the sort of biologist who leaves no stone unturned.
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Taming Data
A new big data management system aims to simplify the process of aggregating large datasets for analysis.
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The Internet Is Sick
The Mozilla Foundation's new Internet Health Report identifies obstacles that undermine entrepreneurship and democracy online.
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The Road to Progress
Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.
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Military Program Produces Gadget That Detects Machinery from Behind a Concrete Wall
The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...
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