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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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se It or Lose It: The Search For Enlightenment in Dark Data
The growth of structured and unstructured data is proceeding exponentially, yet a recent IBM study estimated more than 80% of all data is "dark," or unmanaged and...
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New Rules For Avoiding Cyber Bugs in Medical Devices
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...
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2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
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Computer Models Find Ancient Solutions to Modern Problems
At Washington State University, archaeologists have developed computer simulations of the interactions between ancestral peoples in the American Southwest and their...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated the highest-bandgap transistor ever, a High Electron Mobility Transistor.
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
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Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
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Canadians Solve Key Puzzle For Future of Encryption
Students at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing have developed a system to transmit numerical keys that will unlock coded messages no future...
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Ford Studies sing Drones to Guide Self-Driving Cars
Ford Motor researchers are studying a system to use drones to help guide self-driving vehicles, including on off-road adventures.
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Mimicking Biological Movements With Soft Robots
Harvard University researchers have developed a method to automatically design soft actuators based on a desired movement, in order to create a soft robot that...
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Bat Chat: Machine Learning Algorithms Provide Translations For Bat Squeaks
Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel studying Egyptian fruit bats have found a way to determine which bats are communicating with which other bats, what...
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Open Source Challenger Takes on Google Translate
A new open source machine translation framework could serve as an alternative to closed-source projects such as Google Translate.
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Rice, Baylor Team Sets New Mark For 'deep Learning'
A new deep learning method developed by researchers at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine enables computers to learn about the visual world with...
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Motion-Planning Chip Speeds Robots
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...
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CLA Researchers Combat Antimicrobial Resistance sing Smartphones
New technology from a University of California, Los Angeles research team could help combat the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
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Why Microsoft Believes We're on the Threshold of Quantum Computing
Most researchers aiming to make quantum computing a reality focus on superconducting quantum bits (qubits), but Microsoft's approach avoids harnessing electronic...
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Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children's Well-Being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
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