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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Who's Behind That Beard?
Kurt Luther, working with a team at Virginia Polytechnic and State Institute, has launched Civil War Photo Sleuth, a Web platform that applies facial recognition...
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Inside Nike's Store of the Future
Nike new flagship store in New York City is focused on personalized, experiential shopping, allowing shoppers with the Nike app to check out items via phone, request...
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Christiana Care Honored for Innovative se of Virtual Reality During Chemotherapy
The Christiana Care Health System was awarded the 2018 Magnet Prize from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for its use of virtual reality technology to improve...
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New Deep Knowledge AI System Could Resolve Bottlenecks in Drug Research
A new system can predict the binding of biosequences in seconds and potentially reduce bottlenecks in drug research.
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FNecole: Social-Emotional Learning Meets Computer Science and Digital Literacy
A European company has combined social-emotional learning with computer science into an elementary education digital curriculum that may soon be offered to U.S....
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FDA Approves First HoloLens Augmented Reality System for Surgical se
The technology projects two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional 2D, 3D and 4D images of patients interactively by overlaying them onto the patient's body...
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AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect
Scientists warn that hackers could weaponize artificial intelligence to conceal and accelerate cyberattacks and potentially escalate their damage.
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Eye-Tracking Technology Could Help AR
Dartmouth College researchers have developed battery-free eye-tracking glasses that could enhance augmented reality technologies.
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New Attacks on Graphics Processors Endanger User Privacy
University of California, Riverside scientists have determined how hackers can exploit graphics processing units to expose private data.
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Computers + Collaboration = Student Learning, According to New Meta-Analysis
An international research team analyzed 425 studies conducted since 2000 and concluded computers that support student collaboration beneficially affect learning...
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STEM Firms to Run .K. National Center for Computing Education
U.K. companies in the science, technology, engineering, and math sectors will work together to create and lead a U.K. National Center for Computing Education.
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China's Xinhua Agency nveils AI News Presenter
China's Xinhua state news agency has debuted a virtual newsreader that the agency said "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor."
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Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption
Researchers have found vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives that allow hackers to circumvent encryption and access local data without knowing the password...
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Fire Shows Need for Early Detection: How Tech and AI Can Help
San Jose State University's Craig Clements says artificial intelligence is being explored to more rapidly localize fires and predict their propagation and behaviors...
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Intel CPs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability
Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Intel processors that can allow attackers to leak encrypted data from the internal process of a central processing...
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Kids are Scared of MRI Tests. A New App Turns Them Into a Game.
A high school student in Minnesota has developed a virtual reality app that prepares children for an magnetic resonance imaging scan.
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sing Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Researchers have developed a technique to see through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and an ordinary smartphone.
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Why Some Wikipedia Disputes Go nresolved
Researchers found that factors such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments led to about a third of Requests for Comment by Wikipedia editors going unresolved...
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Discussion topics included counterterrorism, data breaches, and surveillance.
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