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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It
World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order to sustain the Web as beneficial for everyone.
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Quantum Computer Learns to 'see' Trees
St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they say could help scientists use other quantum systems for complicated...
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Researchers Create 'time Crystals' Envisioned By Princeton Scientists
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Maryland have generated time crystals based on the theoretical work of Princeton University scientists. ...
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The Quest to Crystallize Time
Christopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light.
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Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of...
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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...
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New Nasa Radar Technique Finds Lost Lunar Spacecraft
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge.
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Amoeba-Like Robot Programmed With Dna
Researchers have developed a tiny robotic system that is programmed and controlled by DNA and moves like a living cell.
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New Deep Learning Techniques Analyze Athletes' Decision-Making
A new automated method based on deep-learning techniques will provide coaches and teams with a tool to help assess defensive athletic performance in all game situations...
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Predicting Lawsuits
Deep learning yields the ability to forecast the potential for litigation.
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Robots Could Look, Feel 'human' on the Outside
Researchers say technology is available to enable robots to "wear" human tendons, muscle, and skin.
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Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic
Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets.
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How the Cia's Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure
When Wikileaks yesterday released a trove of documents purporting to show how the CIA hacks everything from smartphones to PCs to smart televisions, the agency's...
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The Darknet Protects Itself By Being More Robust Against Attacks
Researchers have found the darknet is especially good at protecting users' privacy and anonymity because it can counter large cyberattacks on its own by spontaneously...
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Steering a Turtle With Your Thoughts
Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can control a turtle using human thought.
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Quantum Microscope Offers Mri For Molecules
A quantum microscope that uses a sensor built from diamonds could allow researchers to study such nanoscale mysteries as how DNA folds in a cell, why drugs work...
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.
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