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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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.S. Postal Service Testing Self-Driving Trucks
The U.S. Postal Service is conducting a pilot study in which self-driving trucks will complete a more-than-1,000-mile mail run between Phoenix and Dallas.
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'Spidey Senses' Could Help Autonomous Machines See Better
Researchers have developed sensors inspired by animals to help autonomous machines navigate in dangerous environments and avoid accidents.
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Big Data Helps Identify Better Way to Research Breast Cancer's Spread
Researchers at Michigan State University are analyzing big data to determine better research models to fight the spread of breast cancer and test potential drugs...
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Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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And Then, There Were Three
How long can the silicon foundry sector continue to adapt, as physical limits make further shrinkage virtually impossible?
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Your Robot Assistant Will Soon Be Able to Read Your Emotions
In South Korea, which turned on its 5G telecom networks nationwide in April, businesses and organizations are counting on 5G to enable the delivery of new technologies...
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Newport Class Makes Astronomy Accessible to Visually Impaired
In a class at St. James Episcopal Church in Newport Beach, CA, visually impaired teens directed telescopes in Chile to capture images of asteroids.
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Santa Clara County Redefines 'Street Smart'
Santa Clara County, CA, has deployed a smart traffic management system.
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Tech-Savvy Estonians Vote Online in European Elections
Estonia is currently the only country in the world that authorizes online voting for its entire electorate, due to its confidence in its Internet voting (i-voting)...
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Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician With Broad Impact, Is Dead
His insights led to tools widely used in modern cryptography.
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Image-Based Computer Model Reveals Finer Details of Tumor Blood Flow Behavior
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a computer simulation of tumor behavior that encapsulates finer blood-flow patterns and how they engineer cancer...
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Microsoft Warns Wormable Windows Bug Could Lead to Another WannaCry
Microsoft warns a serious vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services could be exploited to launch a WannaCry-level attack against Internet-connected computers...
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Brown Researcher Teaches Robots Handwriting, Drawing
A new algorithm gives robots handwriting and drawing capability, in a step toward machines that can communicate and collaborate more seamlessly with humans.
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sing Smartphones to Sound Out Sign of Kids' Ear Infections
University of Washington scientists have developed a pediatric ear-infection diagnostic technique that uses a smartphone to detect fluid accumulation behind the...
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Driverless Electric Truck Starts Deliveries on Swedish Public Road
A driverless electric truck has started delivering freight daily along a public road in Sweden.
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Researchers Find Patterns Associated with Extreme Floods
Researchers used a machine-learning based analysis of extreme floods in the U.S. to learn that these events are associated with four types of atmospheric patterns...
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Computational Tool Enables Molecular Analysis of Biomedical Tissue Samples
Stanford University researchers have developed a computational tool that facilitates analysis of individual cell behavior in biomedical tissue samples.
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Waymo and Lyft Partner to Scale Self-Driving Robotaxi Service in Phoenix
Technology developer Waymo and ride-hailing company Lyft have partnered to deploy driverless vehicles for Lyft's robotaxi service in Phoenix, AZ.
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