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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy.
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Legislating Against AI Bias
Is this the beginning of the end of algorithmic bias in public-sector services?
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AI Technology Could Help Protect Water Supplies
Researchers have developed artificial intelligence software that can identify and quantify different kinds of cyanobacteria that can shut down water systems.
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NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed p Medical Breakthroughs
A new U.S. National Institutes of Health program aims to help researchers accelerate biomedical advances by providing access to commercial cloud computing technologies...
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Decade-Old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices
A study by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology warns of a decade-old bug in the Bluetooth specification.
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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DARPA Seeks nderground Mapping Capability
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in September will host competitions to advance geotechnology's subterranean mapping capabilities.
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Future Electronic Components to Be Printed Like Newspapers
Purdue University researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can make electronics faster than conventional methods.
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Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing
A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer is testing a decentralized blockchain network for processing massive volumes of data produced by the Hubble Space...
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Computing Power Solves Molecular Mystery
Norwegian University of Science and Technology researchers have come up with a new technique for probing molecular behavior.
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Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve
The mind-reading headsets won't read minds.
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Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers
Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.
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Japanese Researchers se AI to Identify Early-Stage Stomach Cancer With High Accuracy
Researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to identify early-stage stomach cancer with high accuracy.
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Apps Make It Easy for Domestic Abusers to Spy
Cornell University researchers have found thousands of applications enabling domestic abusers to spy on their partners.
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Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer fears intensify as self-driving car fatalities dent the driverless dream.
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sing Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery
Researchers collaborated on the use of machine learning algorithms to gain new insights about the history of music.
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The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting research teams to develop a neural interface to allow soldiers to link their brains to military...
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O Internet Architect Honored With International Award
The Internet Society presented Steven Huter with the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award in recognition of his years of work helping to bring the Internet to more...
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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