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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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The Algorithms of Our Future Thinking Machines
Researchers in Sweden are building algorithms for dynamic systems.
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Bitcoin Wallets Vulnerable to Security Hacks
Researchers say they have identified some security flaws in communications systems used in popular models of bitcoin wallet.
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Smartphones Come in Handy For Rare Cosmic Particles Search
Researchers say they have improved a method for analyzing ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with mobile phones.
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Quantum Race Accelerates Development of Silicon Quantum Chip
Researchers have demonstrated that the quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon in a silicon quantum chip.
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Physicists Create Star Wars-Style 3D Projections; Just Don't Call Them Holograms
Daniel Smalley has long dreamed of building the kind of 3D holograms that pepper science-fiction films.
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Combating Data Breach Fatigue
Cyberattacks are so frequent that consumers can experience data breach fatigue, marked by an unwillingness to change passwords or sign up for identity theft protection...
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Drone Light Shows Look Cool, but How Do They Work?
Scientists are exploring multi-robot systems technology.
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New Algorithm Identifies 10 Times More Naturally Occurring Antibiotics Than All Previous Studies
VarQuest is a new computational approach for peptidic natural products identification that could identify about 10 times more of such products than all previous...
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Yale Students Design Chrome Extension to Combat Fake News
Open Mind is a new Google Chrome extension designed to combat fake new.
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Trust Me, I'm a Robot
In an interview, Ayanna Howard discusses her work directing the Georgia Institute of Technology's Human-Automation Systems Lab.
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Drones Learn to Navigate Autonomously By Imitating Cars and Bicycles
The DroNet algorithm enables drones to fly by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments.
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New Autonomous Car Can Handle Snow and Ice
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have developed a self-driving vehicle designed to maneuver in rough and icy conditions.
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Students se Sandbox to Demonstrate Gravity
Gravbox is a new augmented reality sandbox developed to help explain how gravity affects objects when they travel through a certain environment.
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AI Can Read! Tech Firms Race to Smarten p Thinking Machines
Seven years ago, a computer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge. Ever since, the tech industry has been training its machines even harder to make...
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Guarding Against the Possible Spectre in Every Machine
The recent disclosure of the Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities is symptomatic of most technology firms following poor supply-chain precautions, says one...
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New Defenses Sought Against Gps Spoofing Attacks
Researchers have received $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to fortify computers and devices against cyberattacks associated with timekeeping...
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Quantum Technology Forgoes Unconditional Security to Extend its Reach
Two projects in China demonstrate the possibility of global quantum key distribution networks.
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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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