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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...
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Theoretical Physics: Complexity on the Horizon
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".
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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift
Step into the silver screen with movies shot using the Panopticam.
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Wearable Submarine to Hunt for 2000-Year-Old Computer
The world's most advanced robotic diving suit is getting ready to help search for one of the world's oldest computers.
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New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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'beam Me Up, Data'
Researchers say they have succeeded in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips.
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos Announces Milestone For Key/value Middleware
A project has achieved 1,782,105,749 key/value inserts per second into a globally-ordered key space on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Moonlight supercomputer. ...
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds.
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How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds
Researchers say they have successfully transmitted data without link layer flow control overloading throughput with retransmission requests.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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