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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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You Aren't Good Enough to Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy Football
Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.
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Online Security Braces For Quantum Revolution
Encryption fix begins in preparation for arrival of futuristic computers.
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What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory
Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.
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Animators Turn to Motion Capture Tech For Better Results
Researchers at the University of Bradford are presenting their work in motion-capture technology at the upcoming British Science Festival.
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Realizing Carbon Nanotube Integrated Circuits
Northwestern University researchers have developed encapsulation layers that protect carbon nanotubes from environmental degradation.
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sing Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.
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How Google's Self-Driving Cars May Handle the Toughest Situations
Left-hand turns are one of the tougher things drivers have to do.
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This Preschool Is for Robots
University of California, Berkeley researchers are working to develop artificial intelligence that lets machines learn the way humans do.
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China Flexes Tech Muscles Before a State Visit
As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for his first state visit to the United States this month, Washington has warned that it could hit Chinese companies with...
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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.
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A Humanoid Robot to Liaise Between Space Station Crews
Researchers have developed "an autobiographical memory" for the robot Nao, enabling it to pass on knowledge between groups of people.
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Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.
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Researchers Turn Clothes Into Electronic Displays
Researchers say they have achieved an advance in wearable devices that could lead to wearable displays in clothing that provide users with feedback.
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The First Exascale Computer
The supercomputer that holds the current speed record is the Tianhe-2 of the National Super Computer Centre in Guangzhou (China).
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Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly
Researchers have demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
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Self-Driving Golf Carts
The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology recently conducted an experiment in which self-driving golf carts carried 500 tourists around winding paths...
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Researchers Employ Baxter Robot to Help the Blind
Robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing assistive robots to help visually impaired travelers navigate the smart cities of the future.
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Mouth Guard Monitors Health Markers, Transmits Information Wirelessly to Smart Phone
A mouth guard developed by a team at the University of California, San Diego could be used to monitor patients continuously without invasive procedures.
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This Preschool Is For Robots
On the seventh floor of Berkeley's technology research hall, a bright blue and yellow plastic ray gun sits on a long table, along with wooden spoons, model planes...
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