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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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'smart Bandage' Detects Bedsores Before They Are Visible to Doctors
A new smart bandage uses electrical currents to detect tissue damage from pressure ulcers before they are visible and while recovery is still possible.
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Robot Model for Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory and Learning
Researchers have used robot models of infants to study how "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are connected to the position...
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible
Programming pioneer Edsger W. Dijkstra's namesake algorithm remains one of the cleverest things in computer science.
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How the Dark Web Spurs a Spying 'arms Race'
It's a technological arms race, pure and simple.
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Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last August, then dropped a lander onto the comet in November. Now...
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What Your Tweets Say About You
How much can your tweets reveal about you? Judging by the last nine hundred and seventy-two words that I used on Twitter, I'm about average when it comes to feeling...
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Ted 2015: Google Boss Wants Self-Drive Cars 'for Son'
The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years.
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Data Mining Reveals When a Yellow Taxi Is Cheaper Than ber
A researcher compared Uber's prices with those of New York City's Yellow Cabs.
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Shrill? To N.c.a.a. Tournament Referees, It's Symphonic
Susan Mueller, a flutist and the chairwoman of the Nevada-Las Vegas music department, examined the referee's whistle in her hand.
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Edward Snowden Would Like to Explain Himself to a Jury, but He Can't
Edward Snowden wants to come home.
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Supercomputers Help Solve Puzzle-Like Bond For Biofuels
Researchers used the Extreme Science and Discovery Environment to discover the nature of the adhesion complex of cellulosomal proteins.
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Computer-Stored Encryption Keys Are Not Safe From Side-Channel Attacks
Tel Aviv University researchers have found a way to ex-filtrate complex encryption data using side-channel technology.
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Society stands at a crossroads of artificial intelligence: We can design computers that sharpen our wits or we can let our machines turn us into ignoramuses.
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Germany Moves Away From .s.-Dominated Iot Standards Groups
Germany's main telco, tech and manufacturing companies have formed an alliance to make sure that when devices do start speaking to each other over the Internet...
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Cars Could Learn to Drive Themselves from Human Behavior
Object recognition makes up one part of autonomous car technology, but then comes the question of what the car does in response to what it detects.
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