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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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Sharing the Fares
The potential for urban ride-sharing is similar for a variety of cities all over the world.
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Brainlike Computers Are a Black Box. Scientists Are Finally Peering Inside
Researchers say they have developed a method for examining neural networks as they operate and visualizing how they reach conclusions.
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Artificial Intelligence and Robots to Make Offshore Wind Farms Safer and Cheaper
A consortium in the U.K. is investigating artificial intelligence and other technologies to enhance offshore wind farms.
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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...
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New Nasa Radar Technique Finds Lost Lunar Spacecraft
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge.
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Amoeba-Like Robot Programmed With Dna
Researchers have developed a tiny robotic system that is programmed and controlled by DNA and moves like a living cell.
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New Deep Learning Techniques Analyze Athletes' Decision-Making
A new automated method based on deep-learning techniques will provide coaches and teams with a tool to help assess defensive athletic performance in all game situations...
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Researchers Store Computer Operating System and Short Movie on Dna
Researchers have found an algorithm designed for streaming video on a cellphone can unlock DNA's storage potential by squeezing more data into its four base nucleotides...
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Robots Could Look, Feel 'human' on the Outside
Researchers say technology is available to enable robots to "wear" human tendons, muscle, and skin.
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Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic
Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets.
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The Darknet Protects Itself By Being More Robust Against Attacks
Researchers have found the darknet is especially good at protecting users' privacy and anonymity because it can counter large cyberattacks on its own by spontaneously...
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Steering a Turtle With Your Thoughts
Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can control a turtle using human thought.
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Aging Faces Could Increase Security Risks
Researchers are studying how facial aging affects the performance of automatic facial-recognition systems and what implications this could have on identifying criminals...
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Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles, Help Emergency Responders in the Future
Researchers have developed algorithms that enable a wheeled robot to learn the meanings of words from sentences that describe example paths taken by the robot,...
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Quantum Microscope Offers Mri For Molecules
A quantum microscope that uses a sensor built from diamonds could allow researchers to study such nanoscale mysteries as how DNA folds in a cell, why drugs work...
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Tracking the Movement of Cyborg Cockroaches
North Carolina State University's cyborg cockroaches can be remotely controlled to carry technology that could scan disaster areas and identify survivors in the...
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Google Computers Trained to Detect Cancer
Google has developed a new breast cancer detection technique that utilizes machine learning, predictive analytics, and pattern recognition to train a computer to...
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Modeling Gun Violence as a Contagion
Using data to try to keep people from getting shot.
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sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks on Elections and Voting Machines
An algorithm based on game theory can be used to protect against efforts to tamper with election results.
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