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Skoltech Scientists se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth
Researchers have developed a method for predicting the growth of biomass of a plant, which they say will improve the efficiency of precision farming.
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AI-Equipped Robots Develop Situational Awareness in Earth's Most ncertain Environment
Researchers have created algorithms to teach robots to adapt to changing conditions related to protecting and preserving underwater infrastructure.
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Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making
An analysis found doctors' "gut feelings" about an intensive-care patient's condition played a significant role in determining how many tests were ordered for the...
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An AI-Driven Robot Hand Spent a Hundred Years Teaching Itself to Rotate a Cube
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity.
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Blockchain, Once Seen as a Corporate Cure-All, Suffers Slowdown
Corporate America's love affair with all things blockchain may be cooling.
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Beyond Silicon: $1.5-billion .S. Program Aims to Spur New Types of Computer Chips
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced $75 million in new grants to revitalize the computer chip industry.
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Reprogrammable Braille
Researchers have developed a framework to encode memory—in the form of Braille-like dimples and bumps—onto a blank, lattice-free material.
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Amazon Face Recognition Falsely Matches 28 Lawmakers With Mugshots, ACL Says
A test of Amazon's facial recognition software incorrectly matched the faces of 28 U.S. legislators to images in a mugshot database.
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Neural Network Implemented with Light Instead of Electrons
Neural networks have a reputation for being computationally expensive. But only the training portion of things really stresses most computer hardware, since it...
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Cell-Sized Robots Can Sense Their Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed cell-sized robots that can sense their environment, store data, and conduct computational tasks...
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Deep Learning Quickly Finds Structures Affected by Lava
Researchers are working with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to see how lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has affected buildings and infrastructure...
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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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The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...
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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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Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics'
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking insect-sized robots to compete under its Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHRIMP) program...
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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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World's Largest Robot Hauls Ore Through Western Australia
The world's largest robot is an autonomous train that hauls tons of material across Australia.
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