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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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E launches world’s largest civilian robotics program – 240,000 new jobs expected
The European Commission and 180 companies and research organizations have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation program in robotics.
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Bake Your Own Robot
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently introduced the concept of "bakable robots."
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos Announces Milestone For Key/value Middleware
A project has achieved 1,782,105,749 key/value inserts per second into a globally-ordered key space on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Moonlight supercomputer. ...
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds.
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How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds
Researchers say they have successfully transmitted data without link layer flow control overloading throughput with retransmission requests.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
How well can you predict your next mood swing?
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Team Develops a Software Able to Identify and Track an Specific Individual Within a Group
Researchers say they have taken a new approach to monitoring animals that move in groups, with hopes of learning their rules of interaction.
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment.
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ncanny Valley
Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...
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