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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Artificial Intelligence Course Creates AI Teaching Assistant
A team of researchers has developed a virtual teacher's assistant, called Jill Watson, using technologies from IBM's Watson platform.
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Better Screenings Through Artificial Intelligence
Researchers say they have developed a cervical cancer screening technique that could perform as well as, or better than, traditional screening methods at a greatly...
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Seeing with Your Tongue
The climbers at Earth Treks gym, in Golden, Colorado, were warming up: stretching, strapping themselves into harnesses, and chalking their hands as they prepared...
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The Benefits of Old Age (for Transistors)
In case you didn't know, the transistors in your computer's processor, your smartphone's memory, and your car's autobrake system get old.
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Stanford Researchers Develop Crowdsourcing Software to Convene Rapid, On-Demand 'flash Organizations'
New software integrates crowdsourcing's flexibility and the benefits of on-demand specialists to form "flash organizations."
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Internet of Things Made Simple: One Sensor Package Does Work of Many
Researchers have developed a plug-in sensor package that tracks multiple phenomena in a room.
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Fsu Technology Cracks, Fixes Passwords
New software evaluates the strength of a password by trying to break it.
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Computer Accurately Identifies and Delineates Breast Cancers on Digital Tissue Slides
Researchers say a new deep-learning computer network is 100% accurate in identifying the presence of invasive forms of breast cancer in whole biopsy slides.
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Researchers Develop Transistors That Can Switch Between Two Stable Energy States
Researchers have constructed optical and electrical bistable outputs from a single transistor.
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The Most Promising Route to 'mental Superpowers'
Many of us have our special ways of dealing with our feelings and emotions.
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How Nasa Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Really Seeing Them
Everyone likes a good space photo.
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A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Even a decade ago, car manufacturing in China was still a fairly low-tech, labor-intensive endeavor.
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What's Holding Back Self-Driving Cars? Human Drivers
The challenge of understanding drivers' behavior and the quirks of local traffic means the use of autonomous vehicles on public roads will be constrained for many...
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New Robotic Fish For Environmental Monitoring
Researchers are developing a fish-like underwater vehicle equipped with biosensors to monitor water quality.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
C-LEARN is a system designed to let users teach robots skills that they can pass along to other robots.
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The Search For Life on Mars Is About to Get Weird
Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters...
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Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic...
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