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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Real-Time Technicolour Living Brain
Rosa Cossart thinks she knows what a memory looks like.
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Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News
Stanford University professor Tom Mullaney believes computers make Chinese far more advantageous than typing English via a QWERTY keyboard.
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Brown Researchers Developing New Interactive Sleep App
Brown University researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sleep analytics to generate personalized sleep recommendations.
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A Slow Ride Toward the Future of Public Transportation
A self-driving electric bus relying on laser sensors, global-positioning systems, and software is undergoing testing in Helsinki, Finland.
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Will Computer Vision Help France Take a Lead in Ai?
A key factor for France emerging as a leader for research and development in artificial intelligence is overcoming public concerns and outdated government regulations...
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The Ocean's Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet
A wireless communications network could soon enable autonomous underwater instruments to collect information, communicate, and transfer data at Internet speeds,
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Watching Summer Clouds on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2016.
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Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
The Internet of Things could prove highly vulnerable to cyberattackers, according to a new study.
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Robots With Warm Skin Know What They're Touching
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating.
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Make America Tweet Again
Software developed by a team of researchers at the University of Utah can identify an individual's feelings toward current events by analyzing political tweets....
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Internet-Based and Open Source: How E-Voting Works Around the Globe
Although electronic voting in various forms has become more prevalent outside the U.S., its primary difficulties include its inability to verify source code and...
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Nyu Is Building a Real-Life Holodeck
New York University recently received a $2.9-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop an immersive virtual reality experience.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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From Dinosaurs to Crime Scenes--How Our New Footprint Software Can Bring the Past to Life
Using three-dimensional technologies, law enforcement can digitally capture the data in a footprint left at the scene of a crime and subject it to detailed forensic...
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Machine Learning to Help Physicians
New software from researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute can aid physicians who must visually judge medical images to determine the course of cancer treatment...
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Glasses Make Face Recognition Tech Think You're Milla Jovovich
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...
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New Automatic Forest Fire Detection System By sing Surveillance Drones
Researchers from the Technical University of Madrid in Spain are developing the Forest Fire Detection Index to detect forest fires.
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