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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Study Reveals Only 1 in 6 Drivers Want Fully-Autonomous Vehicles
Most U.S. drivers do not want to own a fully self-driving car in the future, according to a University of Michigan survey.
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Four Wild Technologies Lawmakers Want Nasa to Pursue
Imagine a tissue-box sized device, with blades a few feet long, whirring to life after charging for a full Sol on Mars.
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Nasa Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
Using data from NASA's Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive...
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This Robot ses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders.
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Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do
The Generalized Friendship Paradox stipulates that on average, a person's friends post more material and are more influential on social networks than they are.
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China's Scary Lesson to the World: Censoring the Internet Works.
First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing...
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Physicists Discover a New Form of Light
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics and the CRANN Institute, Trinity College, have discovered a new form of light, which will impact our...
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Giant Tsunamis Washed Over Ancient Mars
Some 3.4 billion years ago, giant meteoroids slammed into a frigid ocean covering Mars's northern hemisphere. The impacts kicked up enormous waves that raced across...
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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Reimagining Search
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...
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Dronebuster Will Let You Point and Shoot Command Hacks at Pesky Drones
Anti-drone technology has been high on the shopping list of public safety and military organizations at least since a drunken federal employee crashed a drone onto...
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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Light-Controlled Genes and Neurons Poised For Clinical Trials
Every time something poked its foot, the mouse jumped in pain.
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Mobile Apps and Games Are Also Energy Thieves
Linkoping University's Ekhiotz Jon Vergara has determined the energy consumption of apps on smartphones depends the amount of data transmitted and how it is sent...
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Shape-Shifting Modular Interactive Device nveiled
Cubimorph is a newly developed interactive mobile device that can change shape on demand.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.
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