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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Watching Summer Clouds on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2016.
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Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
The Internet of Things could prove highly vulnerable to cyberattackers, according to a new study.
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Robots With Warm Skin Know What They're Touching
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating.
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Make America Tweet Again
Software developed by a team of researchers at the University of Utah can identify an individual's feelings toward current events by analyzing political tweets....
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Nyu Is Building a Real-Life Holodeck
New York University recently received a $2.9-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop an immersive virtual reality experience.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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Machine Learning to Help Physicians
New software from researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute can aid physicians who must visually judge medical images to determine the course of cancer treatment...
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Glasses Make Face Recognition Tech Think You're Milla Jovovich
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...
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New Automatic Forest Fire Detection System By sing Surveillance Drones
Researchers from the Technical University of Madrid in Spain are developing the Forest Fire Detection Index to detect forest fires.
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How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You
Dystopian corporte surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers...
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Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
The so-called Internet of Things, its proponents argue, offers many benefits: energy efficiency, technology so convenient it can anticipate what you want, even...
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Getting Past The Ad Blockers
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
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Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color
On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli...
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Automated Cars Could Threaten Jobs of Professional Drivers
Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living.
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Researchers Aim to Make Digital Assistants Like Siri Less Annoying
Researchers continue to work on developing digital assistant technology that will help run people's lives more smoothly.
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Pasta Spirals Link Neutron Stars and the Machinery of Your Cells
The conditions are vastly different, but the pasta is the same.
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Google Teaches 'ais' to Invent Their Own Crypto and Avoid Eavesdropping
Google Brain researchers say they have developed artificial intelligence technology that can form encryptions and communicate securely.
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