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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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He Helped Create the 'google Brain.' Here's What He Thinks About AI Now
Trucks that can drive themselves along delivery routes. Computers capable of defeating world champions in a notoriously complex game. Apps that can translate sentences...
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...
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Black Holes Hide in Our Cosmic Backyard
Monster black holes sometimes lurk behind gas and dust, hiding from the gaze of most telescopes. But they give themselves away when material they feed on emits...
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Ua-Developed Avatar Is Helping to Screen New Arrivals at Bucharest Airport
University of Arizona researchers have developed a virtual border agent to question international travelers and flag those that seem suspicious.
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Jill Watson, Round Three
The Georgia Institute of Technology is beginning its third semester using a virtual teaching assistant system in an online course about artificial intelligence....
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Taking Graphics Cards Beyond Gaming
A new mathematical solver enables the graphics cards found in gaming computers to solve computationally intensive mathematical problems.
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New Camera Can See Around Corners
Researchers at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China have built a single-pixel camera that can capture images of objects even when they are not in direct view.
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Air Force Tests Ibm's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
Satellites, aircraft, and growing numbers of drones—the U.S. Air Force has a lot of electronic eyes in the sky.
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The Many-Moons Theory
Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the moon is experiencing a crisis.
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Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
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'transfer Learning' Jump-Starts New AI Projects
Abstracting and reusing knowledge gleaned from a machine-learning application in other, newer apps--or "transfer learning"--is supplementing other learning methods...
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Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map For Voyagers' Galactic Trek
NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system.
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Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
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Transistor Stretchier Than Skin For ltra-Flexible Wearable Tech
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...
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ltrasound Tracking Could Be sed to Deanonymize Tor sers
Ultrasounds emitted by ads or JavaScript code hidden on a page accessed through the Tor Browser can deanonymize Tor users by making nearby phones or computers send...
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Attackers Can Make It Impossible to Dial 911
A new cyberattack strategy can block access to 911 emergency services by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system.
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Caring Cyborgs
Social robots designed to interact with people could act as caregivers for the elderly and children, but current models struggle to understand and mimic the subtleties...
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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Coming From Automakers: Voice Control That Understands You Better
Every once in a while, just for laughs, Kevin Smith-Fagan tries to call a friend of his, Priscilla, using the voice-recognition system in his 2013 Chevrolet Volt...
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