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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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Pluto-Bound Craft Hunts For Hazardous Moons
On 11 May, a telescope aboard a NASA craft will turn and stare at Pluto—like a space-robot equivalent of a sailor watching for shoals that could take out his vessel...
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Researchers Design New Tiny Qwerty Soft Keyboards For Wearable Devices
New technology could serve as a text-entry system for wearable devices that have touchscreens.
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Toward a Squishier Robot: Engineers Design Synthetic Gel That Changes Shape and Moves via Its Own Internal Energy
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a synthetic polymer gel that can utilize internally generated chemical energy to shift shapes and propel itself...
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The Void's Creator Details His Vision For nleashing Virtual Reality's Full Potential
In a 60-by-60-foot room in Salt Lake City, Ken Bretschneider is taking virtual reality experiences to another level.
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Researchers nravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in...
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How Dry Is Texas? Smap, Txson Network Aim to Find Out
A new network of sensors in the bone-dry Texas hill country will produce detailed data on soil moisture—when there is any.
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Images Expose Thunder in Exquisite Detail
On a U.S. military base outside Gainesville, Florida, atmospheric scientists make lightning by shooting rockets into thunderstorms.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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Human vs Machine As Top Poker Pros Take On AI
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...
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A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired Chips
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.
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Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy
NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely.
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The Path to a Wearable Future Lies in Academia
Many of the innovative products now available to consumers are based on technologies developed in academic laboratories years ago.
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A Mouse That Beats the Gamers at Super-Quick Motions
A new computer mouse looks and responds like a conventional mouse but offers nearly unlimited tracking speed.
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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The Billion-Dollar Race to Reinvent the Computer Chip
Chipmakers are spending billions of dollars to develop new computing architectures as the ability to build more transistors into a chip approaches its physical...
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