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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google's AI Wizard nveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
If you want to blame someone for the hoopla around artificial intelligence, 69-year-old Google researcher Geoff Hinton is a good candidate.
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How Songbirds Learn a New Song
Researchers studying how Zebra finches learn new songs have found the birds' strategy closely resembles methods used in computer linguistics to compare documents...
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Small Words in an Email Can Reveal a Person's Identity
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to identify someone by analyzing small sequences of words in emails.
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Building Tomorrow's Robots
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...
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The Physics of Time Travel Isn't Just the Stuff of Science Fiction
We're all time travelers nowadays. We project ourselves mentally into the misty past and the risky future.
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Small Group Scoops International Effort to Sequence Huge Wheat Genome
The wheat genome is finally complete.
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To Secure the Internet of Things, We Must Build It Out of 'patchable' Hardware
The security of the Internet of Things could depend on its constituent hardware being "patchable" so it can adapt to future threats, write several experts.
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Anticipating Aftershocks
Researchers in June released a major report summarizing the scientific and hazard results of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast.
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Cmu, Pitt Brain Imaging Science Identifies Individuals With Suicidal Thoughts
Researchers have developed an approach to identify suicidal individuals by analyzing changes in how their brains represent concepts such as death, cruelty, and...
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her...
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Nustar Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.
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How Russian Trolls Lie Their Way to the Top of Your News Feed
Going viral used to be harmless.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams of Data
Researchers have created a near-perfect streaming algorithm that operates by recalling only enough of what it has seen to relate what it has observed most often...
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Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants
Researchers have developed a method of assessing a preterm infant's brain maturity from an electroencephalogram.
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Women and Robots, 'there's Just No Trust'
Researchers found women were much less likely than men to trust humanoid machines.
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Small Asteroid or Comet 'visits' from Beyond the Solar System
A small, recently discovered asteroid—or perhaps a comet&mdsah;appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy...
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Alan Turing: How His niversal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
Alan Turing is one of the great pioneers of the digital age, establishing the mathematical foundations of computing and using electromechanical digital machines...
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sing Robots in Patient Rehabilitation
Researchers conducted a study of user preferences as an initial step toward developing an interactive movement rehabilitation protocol.
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