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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat
The future of artificial intelligence and its acceptance by people may lie in giving it the ability to master small talk, as embodied by Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot...
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The Tech Giving People Power to Deal with Disability
In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.
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Scientists Decode Brain Signals Nearly at Speed of Perception
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception.
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Babylonian Astronomers sed Geometry to Track Jupiter
A reanalysis of markings on Babylonian tablets has revealed that astronomers working between the fourth and first centuries bc used geometry to calculate the motions...
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Companies Find Tech Talent in Robust Freelance Market
Companies are turning to private marketplaces of software developers to assemble teams for specific projects, rather than hiring permanent personnel.
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Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion
The AlphaGo program beat European Go champion Fan Hui in a series of five matches and achieved a 99.8-percent winning rate against other Go programs.
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Csi: Cyberattack Scene Investigation--a Malware Whodunit
Forensic probes of cyberattacks can uncover their modus operandi and severity, but finding perpetrators is a difficult proposition.
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Nsa Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System
It was the talk most anticipated at this year's inaugural Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers were eager to...
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Google AI Algorithm Masters Ancient Game of Go
A computer has beaten a human professional for the first time at Go—an ancient board game that has long been viewed as one of the greatest challenges for artificial...
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The Neural Network That Remembers
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews.
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Living in the '90s? So Are nderwater Wireless Networks
The speed of today's underwater communication networks is comparable to the sluggish dial-up modems from 1990s.
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Future Delivery Drones Start Learning How to Fly on Their Own
Boston University researchers are developing ways to enable drones to learn how to fly on their own.
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If Killer Robots Arrive, the Terminator Will Be the Least of Our Problems
Experts warned of the threat of autonomous weaponry at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Is Blockchain the Most Important It Invention of Our Age?
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.
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A Bright Approach to Brain Implants
The brain was once considered a "black box," a device so mysterious that you could only guess what it was doing by observing human behavior.
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Go Players React to Computer Defeat
For decades, the ancient game of Go has stood out as the one board game that computers couldn't crack.
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Scenic Sat-Nav Will Take You on the Prettiest Route
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery.
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Who Needs a Computer Science Degree These Days?
An increasing number of software developers are entering the job market lacking degree-level training, according to a VisionMobile survey.
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Wanted: Agile Robots
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology plans a contest to make robots more agile, removing "a major obstacle" to their adoption by manufacturers...
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