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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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N Calls for Smashing Stereotypes
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has cited the need to support and invest in women and girls who want to pursue careers in scientific research....
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Mr. Robot
Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right.
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Early Facebook, Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built
The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology.
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China: Police sing Facial-Recognition Sunglasses
The Chinese government is equipping its police with real-time facial-recognition sunglasses to instantly locate criminals in crowds.
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Social Robot Developed at NSW Set to Revolutionize Workplace Experience
Researchers have developed a social robot to promote creativity and collaboration in the workplace.
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Center for Machine Intelligence Launched to Help Build a Smarter and Safer Society
The University of Southampton in the U.K. recently launched the Center for Machine Intelligence.
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Winter Olympics’ Security on Alert, but Hackers Have a Head Start
More than 300 Olympics-related computer systems have already been hit, with many of them compromised.
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Mind the Gap: This Researcher Steals Data With Noise, Light, and Magnets
The field of cybersecurity is obsessed with preventing and detecting breaches, finding every possible strategy to keep hackers from infiltrating your digital inner...
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Army Researchers Develop New Algorithms to Train Robots
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new methods for robots or computer programs to learn how to...
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Can Computers Learn Like Humans?
The world of artificial intelligence has exploded in recent years. Computers armed with AI do everything from drive cars to pick movies you'll probably like.
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AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory
When it comes to black boxes, there is none more black than the human brain. Our gray matter is so complex, scientists lament, that it can't quite understand itself...
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Supercomputing More Light Than Heat
Researchers have used the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment to gain access to more than 975,000 compute hours on the Maverick supercomputing...
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Automating Materials Design
Researchers say they have developed a system that can numerically specify the properties designers want in a material, then generate a microstructure that matches...
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NSF Grant Awarded to Fund Study of sing Augmented Reality to Interest Girls in STEM
Researchers at the University of Maryland' Center for Environmental Sciences' Appalachian Laboratory have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to use...
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Neural Networks Allow S to 'Read Faces' in a New Way
Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski is using deep neural networks to illustrate the use of facial-recognition technology for invasive monitoring
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How to Control a Machine sing Your Mind
Bill Kochevar's life was changed, seemingly irrevocably, when he was paralysed from the shoulders down following a cycling accident nearly a decade ago.
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If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (and Amazon Has a Patent For It.)
What if your employer made you wear a wristband that tracked your every move, and that even nudged you via vibrations when it judged that you were doing something...
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Facebook Is Trying to Teach Chatbots How to Chit-Chat
Researchers at Facebook's FAIR lab have developed Persona-Chat, a dataset of more than 160,000 lines of dialogue taken from workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk...
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