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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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International Group Aims to Protect the Core of the Public Internet
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace has established a research group to protect the public Internet's core and critical infrastructure.
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More Progress on Carbon Nanotube Processors: A 2.8ghz Ring Oscillator
Back in 2012, I had the pleasure of visiting the IBM Watson research center.
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Sun's Gravity Could Power Interstellar Video Streaming
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...
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New 3D Chip Combines Computing and Data Storage
A new computer chip integrates carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory cells.
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Artificial Intelligence-Based System Warns When a Gun Appears in a Video
A new artificial intelligence program automatically detects in real time when a subject in a video draws a gun.
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Detecting Forged Parts of Photographs Faster and More Accurately
Researchers say they have developed a method for detecting "copy-move forgery" in photographs that is more successful and faster than conventional methods.
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To End Distracted Driving, Mit Figures Out How People Really Drive
Researchers are producing accurate models of people's behavior in cars, in order to shape that behavior to preserve safety.
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help S Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Thousands of Rome's Historical Images Digitized With Help of Stanford Researchers
Researchers at Stanford University have contributed to the creation of a digital visual archive charting Rome's evolution over the centuries.
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Tracking Humans in 3D With Off-the-Shelf Webcams
VNect is a new system for capturing human movements digitally in three dimensions in real time using a single video camera.
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Making Waves
Researchers have introduced a novel representation of waves that improves computational efficiency by at least an order of magnitude.
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Lhc Physicists nveil a Charming New Particle
Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new kind of heavy particle, they announced...
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How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
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Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.
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AI Will Prepare Robots For the nknown
Researchers suggest artificial intelligence could greatly benefit robotic exploratory spacecraft by giving them autonomy.
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Study Finds Hackers Could se Brainwaves to Steal Passwords
A recent study suggests brainwave-sensing electroencephalograph headsets need better security.
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