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How an AI 'cat-and-Mouse Game' Generates Believable Fake Photos
A new artificial intelligence system analyzes thousands of celebrity photos, infers common patterns, and generates new images that are similar.
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AI Early Diagnosis Could Save Heart and Cancer Patients
Ultromics is a new artificial intelligence system that can diagnose heart scans with much greater accuracy than conventional methods, picking up details physicians...
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Wisdom of the Crowd Accurately Predicts Supreme Court Decisions
Researchers say they have analyzed how well crowdsourcing can predict decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court by crunching data from the online FantasySCOTUS league...
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Does Your Phone Know If You're Sick?
A Notre Dame University professor suggests in the next two years there will be significant progress in incorporating software into smartphones to assess one's health...
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Cracking the Brain's Enigma Code
Brain-controlled prosthetic devices have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with limited mobility resulting from injury or disease.
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
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Smartphone Science
A new generation of portable scientific instruments is taking shape, thanks to mobile processors and innovative data-gathering techniques.
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'listening' Drone Helps Find Victims Needing Rescue in Disasters
Researchers in Japan say they have developed technology capable of distinguishing simultaneous speech from multiple persons, demonstrating simultaneous meal ordering...
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How Facebook's Political nit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...
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Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare...
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Researchers Compute Their Way to the Center of the Earth
Researchers are using Germany's Julich Supercomputing Center to better understand how materials behave in the extreme conditions beneath the Earth's surface.
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niversity of Sydney Develops Quantum Trick to Block Background Sensor 'chatter'
Researchers have developed a method to block background "chatter," which they say solves a common problem associated with quantum sensing devices.
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Why Doesn't the N.f.l. se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?
It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.
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AI Insights Could Help Reduce Injuries in Construction Industry
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to gain new insights into ways to help reduce wear-and-tear injuries and boost the productivity of construction workers...
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How Do You Spot a Russian Bot? Answer Goes Beyond Kremlin Watching
Researchers have isolated the characteristics of bots on Twitter by studying bot activity related to Russian political discussions.
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Your Smartphone's Next Trick? Fighting Cybercrime
Researchers have identified smartphones by examining a single photo taken by the device, opening up the possibility of using smartphones to deter cybercrime.
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Single-Photon Detector Can Count to Four
Researchers have demonstrated that a widely used method of detecting single photons can also count the presence of at least four photons at a time.
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Wpi and conn Researchers Create an App to Predict and Intervene in sers' Overeating
SlipBuddy is a smartphone application designed to help users manage their overeating by tracking eating patterns, providing interventions, and helping change behavior...
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