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Why a 24-Year-Old chipmaker Is One Of tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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Putin: Leader in Artificial Intelligence Will Rule World
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
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Ornl Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science's Big Data Problem
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a $2-million grant to study the potential of machine learning to revolutionize scientific data analysis...
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Professor, Experts Aim to Improve Emergency Response
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a system to improve the transmission of critical information for emergency responders.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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These Robots Are sing Static Electricity to Make Nikes
The most labor intensive part of putting together a pair of Nikes is assembling the "upper"—the flexible part of the shoe that sits on top of your foot.
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How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics' Brain Race
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
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Reprogrammed Cells Relieve Parkinson's Symptoms in Trials
Japanese researchers report promising results from an experimental therapy for Parkinson's disease that involves implanting neurons made from 'reprogrammed' stem...
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nifying Statistics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics
A project led by Lehigh University will advance machine learning by merging statistical, computer science, and applied mathematical techniques.
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The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible
For more than 50 years, computers have made steady and dramatic improvements, all thanks to Moore's Law—the exponential increase over time in the number of transistors...
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Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Researchers have demonstrated that neural networks can accurately analyze gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
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Enhancing Disease Modeling
Computational math and biology yield sophisticated guidance for public health officials.
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The Quest to Perfect the niversal Language of Science
For millennia, humans have turned to the sky to tell time.
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Cassini's 13 Years of Stunning Saturn Science—in Pictures
Twenty years ago, in the wee hours of a muggy Florida morning, the Cassini spacecraft lit up the skies as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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Everyone's an Expert, but a Computer Program May Be Able to Pick the Best Ones
A new algorithm analyzed the estimates of an agribusiness expert and helped a business division at an agricultural chemicals company improve its forecast accuracy...
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Shark-Hunting AI-Powered Algorithm to Begin Flying Over Aussie Beaches
SharkSpotter is a new deep learning algorithm that can use real-time video footage streamed from aerial drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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With a Simple Dna Test, family Histories Are Rewritten
Bob Hutchinson's mother told him and his siblings almost nothing about her family, no matter how often they asked. "She was good at brushing people off," said Mr...
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Europe's X-Ray Laser Fires p
Scientists who make movies of molecules in motion have a new high-speed camera to shoot with. The €1.2-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free Electron Laser...
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Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
A scientist wanting to hack into an animal's brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there's a fourth:...
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