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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow
If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots.
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The Town Without Wi-Fi
Monique Grimes had just moved to Florida for a new job when the syndrome started.
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The Space Missions and Events We're Most Looking Forward to in 2015
This year will be another exciting one for space exploration.
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Web Freedom Is Seen as a Growing Global Issue
Efforts by various governments to censor the Internet made headlines in 2014 and are likely to continue in 2015.
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Iot Groups Are Like an Orchestra Tuning p: The Music Starts in 2016
Many companies are not waiting for existing organizations to set the standard for the Internet of Things.
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Brain-Training For Baseball Robot
Researchers in Japan have developed a model of the part of the brain that is responsible for fine motor control.
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Could Sheep Solve the Problem of Poor Wi-Fi Signal in the Countryside? Animals With Digital Collars Could Act as Hotspots
A new project by Lancaster University researchers will explore equipping sheep with digital collars, placing sensors on riverbanks, and deploying rainfall monitors...
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New Form of Memory Could Advance Brain-Inspired Computers
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.
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Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't se It Yet
Researchers say recent breakthroughs in speech recognition and artificial intelligence will soon make gadgets dramatically better at understanding people.
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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft...
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Our Brains Are Being 'continuously Reshaped' By Smartphone se
Extensive use of smartphone touchscreens is changing the sensory relationship between our brains and our thumbs, a study published in Current Biology has revealed...
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The Scoreboards Where You Can't See Your Score
The characters in Gary Shteyngart's novel "Super Sad True Love Story" inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers Worrying Bouts of 'amnesia'
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been exploring the Martian surface for over a decade, an amazing 10 years longer than the 3-month primary mission it began...
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2014 in Computing: Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...
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This Year's 8 Smartest i Design Ideas
When your family gathered for the holidays this year, did you take note of the technology everyone was using?
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The Search For Et: How Close Are We?
In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it?
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Spider's Web Weaves Way to Advanced Networks and Displays
The structures of spider webs and leaves could serve as a design model for next-generation light-manipulating networks, according to researchers at Boston College...
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A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of "a group of young people playing...
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