Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computing Touch
Research groups working independently are closing in on imbuing limbs with a sense of touch via "e-dermis."
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Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Rats
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
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Most People Overlook AI Despite Flawless Advice
U.S. Army researchers and colleagues have found a persistent gap in basic knowledge about the use of artificial intelligence.
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Amazon Scout Robots Take to Pavements in Washington State
Amazon is pilot-testing a wheeled electric robot that travels on pavements to deliver packages to customers in Snohomish County, WA.
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Digital Design, QB Investments Could Aid Football Helmets
Major football helmet manufacturers are funding and refining new digitally designed models with enhanced safety features.
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IBM Facial Recognition Dataset Aims to Remove Gender, Skin Bias
IBM will provide a new million-image dataset to the global research community, to help developers eliminate gender and skin-type biases from facial recognition...
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Fleet of Robots to Park Cars at Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Airport in the U.K. is working with Stanley Robotics to test a fleet of robot valets to park cars for arriving travelers.
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Want to Squelch Fake News? Let Readers Take Charge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...
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Inside Google's Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers
Google's Threat Analysis Group is an in-house counterespionage unit committed to keeping sensitive online information safe from hackers and spies.
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Apple, Aetna Team p on New Healthcare App
Apple and U.S. insurance firm Aetna have partnered on a new Apple Watch application, through which users can access detailed health records.
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Radar Technology sed to Target Grit, Salt on Scotland's Roads
A new smart sensing technology could help spread grit and salt on icy roads more efficiently.
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Researchers Take Step Closer to Creating Tech That Can Read Minds
Columbia University researchers have developed a system that can produce intelligible synthetic speech through computer processing of human brain activity.
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AI Teaches Robots to Walk by Creating Custom Obstacle Courses
Uber AI Labs researchers have designed an algorithm that organizes its own curriculum for teaching simulated robots to walk on uneven ground without falling.
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Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook's Code
Facebook is using two automated tools to find and repair low-level bugs in its mobile apps.
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Rogue Drone Pilots Face A New Foe: Deep Learning AI
A growing number of counter-drone systems look to overwhelm rogue drones, and find their pilots.
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New Horizons' Newest and Best-Yet View of ltima Thule
The wonders–and mysteries–of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of its New Year's Day 2019...
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Identifying Artificial Intelligence 'Blind Spots'
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have "learned" from training examples that don't match...
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Technologizing Agriculture
An array of technologies are making farms more efficient, safer, and profitable.
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A Brave New World of Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering technologies are advancing at a furious rate, changing the world one cell at a time.
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