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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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Driverless Cars Might Follow the Rules of the Road, but What About the Language of Driving?
Navigating the complexity of unspoken rules and social and linguistic cues to communicate with drivers, pedestrians, and others sharing the road is a challenge...
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Japanese Scientists Just sed AI to Read Minds and It's Amazing
Researchers say they have used deep neural networks to decode thoughts.
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Fbi Chief Calls nbreakable Encryption 'urgent Public Safety Issue'
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety issue," FBI Director...
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Can You Save the World with Origami?
Teams of students demonstrated a broad range of original video games at the University of Southern California GamePipe Laboratory Fall 2017 Showcase.
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Huskie Hackers Developed Innovative Solutions to Health and Wellness Challenges
The 2017 Northern Illinois University Huskie Hack featured 269 student hackers who were tasked with developing solutions to health- and wellness-related challenges...
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Next-Gen Flexible Robots Move and Heal Like S
Researchers are developing next-generation robots from soft materials that react to applied voltage with a wide range of motions.
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Deep Learning Sharpens Views of Cells and Genes
Researchers are using deep-learning convolutional neural networks to analyze retinal photos to predict a person's blood pressure, age, and smoking status.
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Logging On to Public Wi-Fi Networks Is About to Get More Secure
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced a major change to Wi-Fi security.
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The Real Future of Work
In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Triple Meltdown: How So Many Researchers Found a 20-Year-Old Chip Flaw At the Same Time
Four groups of researchers independently found the vulnerabilities behind the devastating Meltdown and Spectre attacks within months of each other.
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Vision Teacher
Researchers in Germany are teaching intelligent algorithms to detect cars, pedestrians, and potentially dangerous objects in x-ray images from transportation security...
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Cybersecurity in Self-Driving Cars
The Mcity Threat Identification Model is a new tool to help scientists analyze the likelihood of cybersecurity threats that must be overcome for autonomous and...
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Thinking Machines Going Mainstream
Experts predict cognitive computing will eventually become normalized as a routine behavioral component in newer systems.
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Do We Need a Tech Boom For the Elderly?
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...
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A Dead-Simple Algorithm Reveals the True Toll of Voter Id Laws
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to match individuals across government databases with nearly 100% accuracy by using a few basic identifiers.
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DARPA Launches Subterranean Challenge to Improve nderground Ops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge asks participants to develop systems that could help humans map, traverse, and search...
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Psychedelic Toasters Fool Image Recognition Tech
Researchers say they have created psychedelic stickers that can fool image-recognition software into seeing objects that do not exist.
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Your Phone Will Know You Better Than Your Friends Do, U of T Researcher Predicts
Richard Zemel at the University of Toronto in Canada discusses artificial intelligence developments he anticipates for the year ahead.
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How A Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found 'worst' Chip Flaw
The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.
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