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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Smartphone Speech Recognition Can Write Text Messages Three Times Faster Than Human Typing
Smartphone speech recognition software gets a bad rap. Most users find the nascent technology to be frustratingly slow, and there are entire blogs dedicated to...
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Reconciling Quantum Physics with Math
Mathematicians explore the root of many problems in developing a proof for the Kadison-Singer problem.
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Princeton Develops 25-Core Chip For Servers
Researchers at Princeton University have developed Piton, a chip they believe can significantly boost server performance while reducing energy consumption.
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Natural Scale Caterpillar Soft Robot Is Powered and Controlled With Light
Researchers at the University of Warsaw have used liquid crystal elastomers to develop a bioinspired micro-robot that can mimic the gait of a caterpillar in natural...
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Hand Jive: A Robot Hand Learns to Spin
A five-fingered robotic hand teaches itself how to manage a complex task.
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Brain's Chemical Signals Seen in Real Time
Neuroscientists have invented a way to watch the ebb and flow of the brain's chemical messengers in real time.
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Arm Wrestles Its Way Into Supercomputing
The designer of the chips that run most of the world's mobile devices has announced its first dedicated processor for use in supercomputers.
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Chip Technology Keeps Checked Luggage in Check
On a recent Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore, Shvilla Rasheem arrived in Indianapolis, but her luggage did not.
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People Favor Expressive, Communicative Robots Over Efficient and Effective Ones
Researchers have found making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative could make it more satisfying to work with and improve trust.
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Mcmaster Researchers Resolve a Problem That Has Been Holding Back a Technological Revolution
McMaster University researchers say they have developed a way to purify carbon nanotubes.
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These States Are at the Greatest Risk of Having Their Voting Process Hacked
Not everything belongs on the Internet, and the American electoral process is a textbook example. But 31 states don't see it that way.
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98 Personal Data Points that Facebook ses to Target Ads to You
Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.
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Werner Herzog Film Follows Internet From its Birth at CLA
"Lo and Behold" examines good and bad outcomes of the communication revolution.
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Sense of the Stars: New Telescopes Poised to nlock the niverse
For nearly as long as we've walked the Earth, humans have tried to make sense of the stars.
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'radically Rewritten' Bacterial Genome nveiled
Synthetic biologists report the most far-reaching rewiring yet of a bacterial genome.
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How It Feels to Live in Darkness
I know there isn't one dot of light, but I frantically scan the pitch-black area surrounding me out of habit nonetheless.
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Goat Robot Leg Demonstrates Explosive Jumping
Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Kalouche is developing a new design for legs that would enable a robot to navigate the terrain a goat typically traverses.
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