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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'
A recent study by Vanderbilt University and Ford Motor researchers showed that adaptive cruise control systems can stop "phantom traffic jams" by incrementally...
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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Big Data Mining for Better Contact Center Performance
A European Union-funded project is using big-data mining software to improve customer experiences at contact centers.
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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.
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Students, Chicago Scientists Turn Wrigley Field Into Data Lab
Researchers and students worked together to turn the city’s Wrigley Field ballpark into a sensor node installation.
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Rough Terrain? No Problem for Beaver-Inspired Autonomous Robot
A new system allows autonomous robots to behave like beavers, termites, and other creatures that build structures in response to environmental cues.
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Taking Breaks Boosts Team Performance
New research has found that taking regular breaks can improve team performance.
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Researchers Develop a Better Method to Compare Gene Expression in Single Cells
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help identify biomarkers that differentiate between cell populations at the single-cell level.
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...
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IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters
In its first public demonstration, IBM tested its Project Debater computer system against two human debaters.
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Students Develop App Aimed at Preventing Suicide
Middle-school students in Kalispell, MT, have built an app to help prevent suicide.
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Open Source Professionals in Demand
An "increasingly open source world" needs specialists in Linux and other open source technologies.
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Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions
An international team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor that can diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions.
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'Interacting With Students Provides Rewards That Are Hard to Beat'
Baldwin Wallace University's Jodi Tims, chair of ACM's Council on Women in Computing, discusses how an academic career in computer science offers exceptional rewards...
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Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin
A new variety of electronic sensor made from shape-memory polymers was modeled after whiskers.
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India's Pratyush, Mihir among Top 100 Supercomputers Worldwide
India's two fastest supercomputers, Pratyush and Mihir, both rank among the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the most recent Top500 list...
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Software Without Coding
"Citizen Developers" can create new applications via low-code development.
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