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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Program Gets Women Coding With Nasa Data
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently named 49 participants to its 2016 Datanauts program.
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Partially Automated Cars Provide Enough Benefits to Warrant Widespread Adoption of Current Safety Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the public would benefit if safety-oriented, partially automated vehicle technologies were deployed in all cars.
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Baidu ses Millions of sers' Location Data to Make Predictions
Baidu, China's internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.
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Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your Iphone's Radios Are Snitching
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA's secrets, he famously asked them put their phones in the fridge to block any...
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Uta Researchers Use Text-mining Techniques to Improve Market Intelligence on Potential Mergers and Acquisitions of Startups in the High-Tech Sector
A new technique uses big data analytics and test-mining methods to improve market intelligence and explain potential mergers and acquisitions of high-technology...
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Facebook Plans to Beam Internet to Backwaters With Lasers
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas.
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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Minecraft Is a Testing Ground For Human-AI Collaboration
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.
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Eu Data Protection Law May End the nknowable Algorithm
A new law to be enacted European Union-wide in 2018 could require companies to clarify their decision-making algorithms to avoid unlawful discrimination.
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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots' Stupidity
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent.
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Learning to Trust a Self-Driving Car
On a clear morning in early May, Brian Lathrop, a senior engineer for Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory, was in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S...
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Having Stomach Troubles? Try Swallowing an Origami Robot
Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.
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Inside Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Engine Room
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....
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The Secret History of X-Ray Specs
"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was...
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Can We Protect Against Computers Being Fingerprinted?
University of Adelaide researchers are working to find new methods of protecting against the fingerprinting of personal computers.
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Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories
An augmented reality "IT help desk" could allow factories to identify and mitigate cyberattacks on industrial control systems.
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Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
Artificial intelligence and robotics are leading a transformation in Silicon Valley expected to be as significant as the personal computing and commercial Internet...
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.
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Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win
Microsoft pulled the strings. At least, that’s what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints...
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