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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Will Google's Ray Kurzweil Live Forever?
Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say?
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Nasa 2014 Budget: More For Asteroids, Less For Planets and Education
The White House released its requested federal budget yesterday, which includes NASA funding.
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Robot Truck Platoons Roll Forward
Imagine cruising down a three-lane highway and rounding a bend to find four trucks rolling along in single-file. They are all traveling close together—perhaps too...
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Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car
Early attempts at driverless cars have had little difficulty gathering the loads of data required to operate autonomously.
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Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still Dynamic
Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members...
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Computers That Identify You By Your Thoughts
Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password, according to School of Information researchers. A new study explores the...
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Will We Ever… Communicate Telepathically?
In a lab at Harvard Medical School, a man is using his mind to wag a rat's tail.
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Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming
In today's science-so-weird-it-absolutely-must-be-science-fiction contest, we have a clear winner: a new study in which a team of scientists use an MRI machine,...
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Mechanical Computer Flexes Its Muscle
If we go way back to the 18th century, we find ourselves in the heyday of mechanics.
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Bet You're a Liam--Software Puts Names to Faces
Researchers are investigating whether it is possible to take an educated guess at someone's name with just one look at their face.
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New Test For Computers: Grading Essays at College Level
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the "send" button when you...
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Swarming Robots Could Be the Servants of the Future
Researchers are working to program a group of 40 robots as part of a robot swarms project that could benefit the medical field, industry, and the military.
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Digital Shrinks Find Depressed Faces and Body Language
Automated systems that analyze gestures and facial expressions could make the challenging task of diagnosing depression somewhat easier.
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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...
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Obama to nveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand...
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Computer Program Claims First Victory Over Shogi Professional
A computer program has defeated an active shogi professional for the first time.
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Nsf-Funded Superhero Supercomputer Helps Battle Autism
Researchers are using the Gordon supercomputer to develop techniques that can be used to guide the development of treatments for mental disorders.
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AI Programmers Struggle to Make Games 'imitate Life'
Artificial intelligence in videogames should improve to incorporate more intelligent characters into games.
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