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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Cheap Labor Drives China's A.I. Ambitions
Some of the most critical work in advancing China's technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the middle of the country's heartland, far from the...
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NASA InSight Team on Course for Mars Touchdown
NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of...
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Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
Behind a thin white veil separating his makeshift lab from joggers at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology indoor track, aerospace engineer Steven Barrett recently...
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Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points...
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The Microscope Revolution that's Sweeping Through Materials Science
Scientists can't study what they can't measure, as David Muller knows only too well.
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CM, Microsoft Join Forces to Advance Edge Computing Research
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Microsoft will collaborate to further edge computing via CMU's Living Edge Laboratory, a testbed for applications that produce...
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The Snowden Legacy: What's Changed, Really?
Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the basis for a series of revelations that...
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How AI Is Changing Wildlife Research
A software program developed by the conservation technology nonprofit Wild ME automatically identifies individual animals by their unique coat patterns or other...
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AI Judges and Juries
Artificial intelligence is changing the legal industry.
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This Company Is Helping Build China's Panopticon. It Won't Stop There
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Kepler Telescope Bids 'Goodnight' with Final Commands
On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 15, NASA's Kepler space telescope received its final set of commands to disconnect communications with Earth.
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Largest Overhaul of Scientific nits Since the French Revolution Wins Approval
In the biggest overhaul of the international system of units since 1875, countries have voted to redefine four basic units of measurement—the ampere, the kilogram...
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Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass
We are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were formed directly by stars.
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Disaster Relief Is Dangerously Broken. Can AI Fix It?
The use of artificial intelligence in disaster relief is gaining favor as weather-related catastrophes grow in frequency and severity.
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Playing Catch-p, Germany Throws Money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua'
In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua,' the first known interstellar object to visit our solar...
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World’s First Automated Volcano Forecast Predicts Mount Etna's Eruptions
Smoke filled the cabin as the Boeing 747 plunged towards snow-covered mountains in southern Alaska. All four engines had shut down, and it took the pilots eight...
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Say Au Revoir to that Hunk of Metal in France that Has Defined the Kilogram
The world is about to say au revoir to Le Grand K, a cylinder of platinum and iridium that has long reigned over the world's system of weight measurement.
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Where Will Science Take s? To the Stars
After 30 hours of bumping along on planes and buses, at long last I stood in the darkness and gazed upon an immense night sky.
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