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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Wave of the Future: Terahertz Chips a New Way of Seeing Through Matter
Researchers at Princeton University say they have created microchips capable of transmitting and receiving terahertz waves.
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Intel Researches Tech to Prepare For a Future Beyond Today's Pcs
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...
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Millimeter-Scale Computers: Now With Deep Learning Neural Networks on Board
University of Michigan computer scientists are researching micro mote computers.
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Sensors Embedded in Sports Equipment Could Provide Real-Time Analytics to Your Smartphone
Researchers are experimenting with Internet of Things devices that can be embedded into sports equipment, as well as in wearable devices, to make data analytics...
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Elusive Triangulene Created By Moving Atoms One at a Time
Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle-like microscope tip.
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Inside the Far-Out Glass Lab
Engineers at Corning's research lab in New York are developing new materials in their quest to expand the capabilities of glass.
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ts to Launch Programming Environment For the Quantum Era
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia say they will soon unveil a quantum-era programming environment at the UTS Center for Quantum Software...
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Automated Rescue
The Texas A&M University Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue builds robots that can work with first responders in search-and-rescue operations.
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Nae's Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
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Scientists Shortlist Three Landing Sites For Mars 2020
Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
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AI Learns to Solve Quantum State of Many Particles at Once
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...
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Long-Awaited Mathematics Proof Could Help Scan Earth's Innards
Mathematicians say that they have solved a major, decades-old problem in geometry: how to reconstruct the inner structure of a mystery object 'X' from knowing only...
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We Finally Have a Computer that Can Survive the Surface of Venus
Venus is one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system.
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Nasa, Uci Reveal New Details of Greenland Ice Loss
Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic...
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A Healthy Approach?
A new wave of consumer-centric connected fitness and health-related devices is changing healthcare.
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Pioneering Chip Extends Sensors' Battery Life
Engineers have developed an inexpensive, ultra-low-power computer chip that can extend the battery life of sensors.
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Kingston niversity to Explore How Drones, Smart Wristbands, and Cameras Could Transform Future of Concert Security
Researchers will investigate how networked drones, smart wristbands, and body-mounted video cameras could enhance concert security.
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This Technology Could Finally Make Brain Implants Practical
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
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