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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
Researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence lab have developed an expressive animated bot controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm trained on hundreds...
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nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.
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Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have successfully manipulated the electronic structure of graphene.
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What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells S About the Future of Automation and Work
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will...
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Why a 24-Year-Old chipmaker Is One Of tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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Ornl Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science's Big Data Problem
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a $2-million grant to study the potential of machine learning to revolutionize scientific data analysis...
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Professor, Experts Aim to Improve Emergency Response
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a system to improve the transmission of critical information for emergency responders.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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These Robots Are sing Static Electricity to Make Nikes
The most labor intensive part of putting together a pair of Nikes is assembling the "upper"—the flexible part of the shoe that sits on top of your foot.
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How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics' Brain Race
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
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White House Floats Vision For It Modernization
The report sets as high-level goals a vision for the future of federal IT, and a plan to jumpstart government transition to that vision.
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The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible
For more than 50 years, computers have made steady and dramatic improvements, all thanks to Moore's Law—the exponential increase over time in the number of transistors...
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Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Researchers have demonstrated that neural networks can accurately analyze gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
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Making Datacenters More Energy Efficient
BlueCache is a more energy-efficient datacenter caching system that uses flash memory.
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Enhancing Disease Modeling
Computational math and biology yield sophisticated guidance for public health officials.
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Designing Custom Robots in a Matter of Minutes
The Interactive Robogami system lets users quickly design a robot, and then three-dimensionally print and assemble it in as little as four hours.
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Cassini's 13 Years of Stunning Saturn Science—in Pictures
Twenty years ago, in the wee hours of a muggy Florida morning, the Cassini spacecraft lit up the skies as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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With a Simple Dna Test, family Histories Are Rewritten
Bob Hutchinson's mother told him and his siblings almost nothing about her family, no matter how often they asked. "She was good at brushing people off," said Mr...
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Europe's X-Ray Laser Fires p
Scientists who make movies of molecules in motion have a new high-speed camera to shoot with. The €1.2-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free Electron Laser...
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