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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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NASA's Juno Mission Halfway to Jupiter Science
On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA's Juno spacecraft will be 3,140 miles (5,053 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at...
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Searching for the Perfect Artificial Synapse for AI
What's the best type of device from which to build a neural network? Of course, it should be fast, small, consume little power, have the ability to reliably store...
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Ingestible Capsule Can Be Controlled Wirelessly
A new ingestible capsule can be customized to dispatch drugs, sense environmental conditions, or both, and can remain in the stomach for at least a month.
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Data se Draining Your Battery? Tiny Device to Speed up Memory While Also Saving Power
A memory cell with multiple layers of two-dimensional material stacks has the potential to be faster and more reliable than other materials.
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STEM Toys Promise to Turn Kids Into Tech Geniuses. Grown-Up Coders Are Skeptical
Some programmers are doubtful that toys promising to imbue young minds with science, technology, engineering, and math skills can deliver on that promise.
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How Sony's 'Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse' ses AR to Put a New Spin on a Beloved Superhero
Sony has enhanced the new animated film "Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse" to break new ground with augmented reality technology.
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This Artist Is sing AI to Paint With His Mind
Roboticist Alexander Reben uses artificial intelligence to create works of art.
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley
Donald Knuth, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 1974, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, "The Art of Computer Programming."
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China Has Never Had a Real Chip Industry. Making AI Chips Could Change That.
Donald Trump is speaking Mandarin.
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The Making of a Computer-Generated Influencer
Miquela Sousa is a computer-generated character developed as a social media personality that can evolve with the times without aging.
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Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
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Quantum Network Joins Four People Together for Encrypted Messaging
A new network design uses quantum key distribution to secure messages among four users.
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Foldable Drone Can Navigate Narrow Holes
A new drone can compress itself to pass through narrow spaces and then revert to its previous shape, all while continuing to fly.
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The Key to Cracking Long-Dead Languages
Broken and scorched black by fire, the dense, wedge-shaped marks etched into the ancient clay tablets are only just visible under the soft light at the British...
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Quantum Computing Needs You to Help Solve Its Core Mystery
Since 2016, IBM has offered online access to a quantum computer. Anyone can log in and execute commands on a 5-qubit or 14-qubit machine located in Yorktown Heights...
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Taming Turbulence: Seeking to Make Complex Simulations a Breeze
Researchers used state-of-the-art supercomputers to examine how turbulence in the atmosphere plays out over long periods of time
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Seeking Equilibria in Economics, Computer Science
Daskalakis' work brings deep theoretical analysis to bear on high-impact problems with direct effects on real-world applications.
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'Superhuman' AI Triumphs Playing the Toughest Board Games
DeepMind's self-learning AlphaZero algorithm has demonstrated superhuman success at complex board games including chess, shogi, and go.
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NASA's InSight Takes Its First Selfie
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie—a mosaic made up of 11 images.
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