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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Project Underway to Preserve Holocaust Experience in Virtual Form
University of Huddersfield researchers are working on the Interact project, which aims to preserve the first-hand accounts of Nazi persecution survivors.
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The Physics of Life
First, Zvonimir Dogic and his students took microtubules—threadlike proteins that make up part of the cell's internal 'cytoskeleton'—and mixed them with kinesins...
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The Big Data of Bad Driving, and How Insurers Plan to Track Your Every Turn
For years, insurance companies have used estimates of your annual mileage to determine your car insurance rates.
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Full-Circle Panorama Beside 'namib Dune' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep...
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Face Time: Onr-Sponsored Tech Reads Facial Expressions For Autism Symptoms
A new app can screen for autism by reading children's facial expressions for emotional cues.
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Carnegie Mellon Develops New Method For Analyzing Synaptic Density
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say they are using machine learning to survey learning-related changes in synapse properties.
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Machines, Lost in Translation: The Dream of Universal Understanding
A universal translator remains an elusive goal more than 60 years after the creation of one was first undertaken.
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In 2015, Promising Surveillance Cases Ran Into Legal Brick Walls
Today, the first Snowden disclosures in 2013 feel like a distant memory.
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New Questions About Many Queries For Quantum Computing
Researchers in Canada have raised new concerns about the advantages of the bucket brigade model for algorithms using super-polynomial oracle queries.
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How Software Developers Helped End the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone
A team of software developers helped solve the problem of distributing wages to healthcare workers fighting the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.
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App Differentiates a Baby's Crying Sounds
Researchers at National Taiwan University Hospital have developed the Infant Cries Translator app, which can distinguish four separate crying sounds made by babies...
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Ipv6 Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Reaching 10 Percent Deployment
Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
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How the .s. Requests ser Data from Google
The United States again topped the list of nations that request user data from Google, according to last week's Google Transparency Report.
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How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
There was once a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace...
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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.
Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico...
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The A.i. Anxiety
The world’s spookiest philosopher is Nick Bostrom, a thin, soft-spoken Swede.
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Machines, Lost in Translation: The Dream of Universal Understanding
It was early 1954 when computer scientists, for the first time, publicly revealed a machine that could translate between human languages. It became known as the...
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Nasa and the .s. Air Force Test a New Ground-Based Gps
Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.
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