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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Martonosi Sketches a Path For a New Type of Computing
Princeton University professor Margaret Martonosi says quantum computing has reached an inflection point.
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Multiplayer Video Games: Researchers Discover Link Between Skill and Intelligence
Researchers have found a connection between young people's ability to perform well at two popular video games, and high levels of intelligence.
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Can Computers Be Creative?
Pennsylvania State University researchers are training computers to produce original design ideas, in order to determine whetyer they are technically feasible. ...
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First-of-Its-Kind Bioengineered Robotic Hand to Sense Touch
Researchers are developing a bioengineered robotic hand that will grow and adapt to its environment, with its own peripheral nervous system linking to sensors and...
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Blockchain Gets a Wall Street Win: 'we Know the Thing Works Now'
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...
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Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World
After the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, many people worry that technology has gone too far.
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Listening For Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from...
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Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
A new deep-learning algorithm that evaluates chest x-rays for signs of disease and can outperform radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.
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The Power of AI in the Sky
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to sift massive amounts of big data in support of astronomy projects.
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Inside the Mechanical Brain of the World's First Robot Citizen
Hanson Robotics' humanoid robot, Sophia, is defined by creator Ben Goertzel as more of a user interface than a conscious artificial intelligence.
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How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door
In a competition, robots were unable to overcome the challenge of an unlocked door impeding their way at an outdoor obstacle course, illustrating the technology's...
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Researchers Study Human Movement to Build Better Robots
Researchers at Northeastern University are studying how people and robots move independently and in tandem.
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Co-Design Center Develops Next-Gen Simulation Tools
The Exascale Computing Project's Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations collaborates to create highly optimized discretization libraries and next-generation...
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Researcher Seeks to Tame 'ghost' of ncertainty in Complex Dynamic Systems
University of Kansas professor Huazhen Fang is leading research to address "unstructured uncertainty" in the quest to develop accurate predictive mathematical...
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Training For Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
Governments are taking a closer look at artificial intelligence as a way to further their strategic interests in areas such as national defense.
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Programs Provide a Helping Hand to Scientists Analyzing Images
Researchers are using machine learning and deep learning to better identify how neutrinos interact with normal matter.
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IBM Raises the Bar With 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
IBM last week announced a 50-quantum bit quantum computer, as well as the availability of a 20-qubit system via its cloud computing platform.
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.
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