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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Who Wants to Show p as Gandalf at Their Next Meeting?
Researchers are developing novel ways of capturing facial micro-expressions that are essential to creating natural dialogue and nuanced actor-specific emotions....
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Will Driverless Cars Really Save Millions of Lives? Lack of Data Makes It Hard to Know
The lack of data on how driverless automobiles' performance compares with human drivers makes it difficult to determine the safety benefits of autonomous vehicles...
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This Robot Can Do More Push-ps Because It Sweats
Researchers from the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab say they have developed a more efficient way to cool humanoid robots.
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Minding the Gap, Blind
Most commuters keep their eyes down in the morning while traipsing through the gleaming corridors of London’s Euston Underground station.
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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Can Crispr Save Ben Dupree?
At 24, Benjamin Dupree has outlived many people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...
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Google's AI Reasons Its Way Around the London nderground
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...
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In a Medical First, Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man to Feel Again
For the first time, a paralyzed man has regained his sense of touch via a thought-controlled robotic arm thanks to experiments conducted by the University of Pittsburgh...
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Pioneering Brain Implant Restores Paralysed Man's Sense of Touch
For the first time, a paralysed man has gained a limited sense of touch, thanks to an electric implant that stimulates his brain and allows him to feel pressure...
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
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Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry
"We are looking at sensory immersion.
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How Virtual Reality Is Being sed to Deliver Mental Health Care
Scientists around the world are starting to use virtual reality technology as part of mental health care. VR can help people overcome the two main limitations of...
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niversity to nveil .k.'s First Cave as Part of New Tech Hub
Edge Hill University is preparing to unveil the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), the U.K.'s first super-immersive three-dimensional virtual environment...
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Even Bugs Will Be Bugged
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.
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Cybathlon: Battle of the Bionic Athletes
Bionic arms, robotic legs, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computer interfaces and supercharged wheelchairs - all took centre stage to compete at this weekend's...
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Syracuse University Researchers Work to Make Computers Faster
Syracuse University researchers are studying a phenomenon known as passive liquid flow, or transpiration, as part of an attempt to increase computer processing...
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