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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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OR's New Supercomputer Has the Brains to Tackle Weather Forecasting, Physics, and More
Oral Roberts University has unveiled an $850,000 supercomputer, with the goal of bolstering the institution's science, technology, engineering, and math program...
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The Designer Changing the Way Aircraft Are Built
Generative design is being employed to design seatbelt brackets in cars, motorbike chassis, cabin partitions in passenger aircraft, and other everyday industrial...
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Overcoming AI Bias with AI Fairness
New tools aim to remove unconscious and other types of bias from algorithms.
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More Than an Auto-Pilot, AI Charts Its Course in Aviation
Ask anyone what they think of when the words "artificial intelligence" and aviation are combined, and it's likely the first things they'll mention are drones.
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Smartphone Camera Replicates Physical Objects for Virtual Reality
A new technique allows physical objects to be replicated for the augmented and virtual reality space using any digital camera with a flash.
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Facial Gestures Can Move This AI-Motorized Wheelchair
A new prototype kit exploits artificial intelligence to enable a disabled person to drive a motorized wheelchair using facial expressions.
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Inside Sellafield's Death Zone With the Nuclear Clean-p Robots
The defunct Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Cumbria in the U.K. is a toxic environment that must be cleaned up by robots.
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OK, Computer: How Much Is My House Worth?
Computer algorithm-based valuations could replace appraisers.
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
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Amazon Sets About Speeding p Space Data Processing in the Cloud With AWS Ground Stations
Amazon Web Services is creating a managed network of ground stations to boost the efficiency of processing data from orbiting space satellites and moving it to...
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AI a Focus as .S. Preps Export Controls
The U.S. Commerce Department has called for input by Dec. 19 on which of 14 emerging technologies should face export controls.
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Playing With Molecules in Virtual Reality
A growing number of companies are using virtual reality to enable scientists to view, design, and manipulate molecular structures.
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The Drive Toward Self-Driving Food Delivery Vehicles
Are pizza delivery guys destined to be so 20th century?
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MUHC Researchers Develop Effective HIV Self-Testing App: Study
A new app for people who want to test themselves for human immunodeficiency virus can potentially reduce the disease's spread and connect those infected with timely...
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AI Robot CIMON Debuts at International Space Station
The CIMON artificial intelligence robot aboard the International Space Station can engage verbally with the station's crew.
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The Challenges of Predicting Mob Behavior at Political Rallies
A new model can better predict social contagions that occur at political rallies than previous methods.
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Researchers Bring Jedi Powers to Life With Force Push
A new technique method allows virtual reality users to move faraway objects and focus with an approach for remote object manipulation.
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Is the Artificial Pancreas a Game Changer?
Researchers have developed software that automatically the monitors blood glucose levels of patients with Type 1 diabetes.
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'Chemputer' Promises App-Controlled Revolution for Drug Production
A new technique for producing drug molecules uses downloadable blueprints to easily, reliably synthesize organic chemicals via a programmable computer.
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