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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. Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media
The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country...
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Ford Studies sing Drones to Guide Self-Driving Cars
Ford Motor researchers are studying a system to use drones to help guide self-driving vehicles, including on off-road adventures.
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Bat Chat: Machine Learning Algorithms Provide Translations For Bat Squeaks
Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel studying Egyptian fruit bats have found a way to determine which bats are communicating with which other bats, what...
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Open Source Challenger Takes on Google Translate
A new open source machine translation framework could serve as an alternative to closed-source projects such as Google Translate.
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The Year Encryption Won
Between the revelations of mega-hacks of Yahoo and others, Russia's meddling in the US electoral system, and the recent spike in ransomware, it's easy to look at...
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Rice, Baylor Team Sets New Mark For 'deep Learning'
A new deep learning method developed by researchers at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine enables computers to learn about the visual world with...
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Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children's Well-Being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Mass Data Retention in Eu
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...
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Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...
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Slowing the Spread of Viral Misinformation: Can Crowdsourcing Help?
Social media platforms play a pivotal role in the modern information-sharing environment's facility with virally spreading misinformation, which leads to speculation...
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Driverless Platoons
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a mathematical model to study the effects of scheduling policies on fuel consumption and travel...
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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Bias in Technology
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
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Computers Can Take Social Media Data and Make Marketing Personas
Pennsylvania State University researchers have used computers to study information from social media accounts and automatically build marketing personas.
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Database of Software 'fingerprints' Expands to Include Mobile Apps
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers have spent 15 years maintaining an archive of the world's software.
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Data Diversity
Selecting diverse subsets from a much larger dataset promises to be much more practical using a new algorithm designed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute...
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