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Medical, Scientific Image Analysis Vastly Improved By New Software
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Medical, Scientific Image Analysis Vastly Improved By New Software

University of Missouri researchers have developed that very quickly and accurately analyzes any series of images.

This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private
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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private

A personalized news recommendation application collects data about the user to suggest relevant stories without sending any personal information to a remote server...

App Improves Medication Adherence For Heart Stent Patients
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App Improves Medication Adherence For Heart Stent Patients

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed software that helps heart patients with drug-eluting stents correctly take their medications.

Your (social Media) Votes Matter
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Your (social Media) Votes Matter

A recent study demonstrates how a single up/down vote on Reddit dictates the content users see on the site.

D-Wave ­pgrade: How Scientists Are ­sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer
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D-Wave ­pgrade: How Scientists Are ­sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer

The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...

AI Software Learns to Make AI Software
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AI Software Learns to Make AI Software

Several research organizations are working to create artificial intelligences that can in turn develop machine-learning software.

Noaa's Goes-16 Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
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Noaa's Goes-16 Satellite Sends First Images of Earth

Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for...

Taming Data
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Taming Data

A new big data management system aims to simplify the process of aggregating large datasets for analysis.

The Internet Is Sick
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The Internet Is Sick

The Mozilla Foundation's new Internet Health Report identifies obstacles that undermine entrepreneurship and democracy online.

The Road to Progress
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The Road to Progress

Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.

Military Program Produces Gadget That Detects Machinery from Behind a Concrete Wall
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Military Program Produces Gadget That Detects Machinery from Behind a Concrete Wall

The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...

Microbiologists Make Big Leap in Developing 'green' Electronics
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Microbiologists Make Big Leap in Developing 'green' Electronics

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a type of microbial nanowire that could help researchers develop sustainable conducting materials...

Superfast Camera Sees Shock Wave from Light
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Superfast Camera Sees Shock Wave from Light

A camera system that captures a snapshot of overlapping light waves in a tiny fraction of a second could lead to new methods for imaging, allowing scientists to...

How to Learn Morse Code—semiconsciously
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How to Learn Morse Code—semiconsciously

Learning Morse code, with its tappity-tap rhythms of dots and dashes, could take far less effort—and attention—than one might think.

Researchers Build Carbon Nanotube Transistors That Outperform Those Made with Silicon
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Researchers Build Carbon Nanotube Transistors That Outperform Those Made with Silicon

Researchers at Peking University in China say they have built a carbon nanotube-based working transistor that outperforms larger transistors made with silicon. ...

Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat
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Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat

Researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that twists and compresses in sync with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions compromised by...

­.s. Soldiers Will Be Armed With Machine Translators to Kill Communication Woes
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­.s. Soldiers Will Be Armed With Machine Translators to Kill Communication Woes

The U.S. military will soon reach full deployment of its Machine Foreign Language Translation System, which runs on military and commercial devices.

Secure Quantum Communications
From Communications of the ACM

Secure Quantum Communications

Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.

Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?
From Communications of the ACM

Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?

Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry...

It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data
From Communications of the ACM

It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data

In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
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