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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Mercury Seen As Never Before
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set to plunge to its doom on 30 April, ending nearly four years of exploration of Mercury. Before it goes, the mission is sending...
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DARPA Accelerates ltimate Automated Pilot Software
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded its first contracts to vendors to build an automated system designed to reduce pilot fatigue.
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Developing Infrastructure For Data Sharing Around the World
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance meet face-to-face at plenary meetings worldwide to coordinate activities and advance their efforts.
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Google's Eric Schmidt Downplays Fears Over Artificial Intelligence
Arguably the most alarming part of concerns over artificial intelligence's potential to end human civilization is the voices that are speaking out.
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A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It's Secret
A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials...
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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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So Sayeth Google
Search for "vaccines." At least within our filter bubble, the top item in Google's "In the news" section earlier this week was an anti-vax column about the "feds'...
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Pagerank Algorithm Reveals World's All-Time Top Soccer Team
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
Researchers are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by placing stickers on laminated sheets of paper.
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Stanford Launches Smartphone App to Study Heart Health
A new iPhone app called MyHeart Counts enables researchers to collect data about users' physical activity and cardiac risk factors.
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Rover Arm Delivers Rock Powder Sample
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its robotic arm Wednesday, March 11, to sieve and deliver a rock-powder sample to an onboard instrument. The sample was collected...
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Robot vs. Robot
Beautiful mathematical patterns are hidden in the chaos of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings.
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.
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Guaranteeing Online Anonymity
A new program can provide an accurate assessment of the level of online anonymity an individual user achieves.
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Researchers Develop "visual Turing Test"
Researchers have developed a "visual Turing Test" that can evaluate how well computers understand information taken from images.
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Watch What You Say
Mu'tah University researcher Ahmad Hassanat is developing a computerized system that can analyze the shapes human lips make as they produce different sounds.
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Complex Molecules Made to Order in Synthesis Machine
Synthesizing complex molecules is a notoriously fiendish art—and a daily toil for many chemists.
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FCC Goes Public with Net Neutrality Rules For Governing Internet
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally spelled out how it will preserve the open Internet, publicly releasing a 400-page PDF that details its...
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The Philae Comet Lander Might Have Enough Power to Wake Up
In November, a spacecraft made a dramatic, first-ever landing on a comet—three times.
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