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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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Virtual Reality Room Facilitates New Research
Brown University's YURT Ultimate Reality Theater creates images viewable with three-dimensional (3D) glasses.
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Twitter Data Can Make Roads Safer During Inclement Weather
University at Buffalo researchers are examining how weather-related tweets can improve computer models of driving during inclement weather.
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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Software-Defined Batteries Take Charge
Researchers are exploring a new generation of batteries that rely on software to define performance.
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Untraceable Communication Guaranteed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled an untraceable text-messaging system designed to foil even the most powerful adversaries.
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Facebook's New Tools to Help the Blind Navigate Social Media
Engineer Matt King is blind and works on Facebook's accessibility team, which helps the service make it easier for the visually impaired to interact with it.
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Man With No Limbs Controls Robotic Hand sing Muscle Whispers
Sam Wilson, a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, and supervisor Ravi Vaidyanathan are designing new ways for the human body to control prostheses.
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A Smarter Kind of Crash Test Dummy
Car crash simulations are being run on a supercomputer using a combination of actual vehicle, scene, and medical data by Wake Forest University researchers.
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When Apps Talk Behind Your Back
A recent study found nearly 9% of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy.
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Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI
Although software designed to play standard board games can now dominate even the best human players, the ancient game of Go has proven a much trickier challenge...
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.
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Can’t Put Down Your Device? That's By Design
Greg Hochmuth was one of the first software engineers hired at Instagram.
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When Your Boss Is an ber Algorithm
Researchers say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.
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From AI and Data Science to Cryptography: Microsoft Researchers Offer 16 Predictions For ’16
Microsoft has released a collection of predictions from 16 leaders and leading thinkers within its Technology and Research organization.
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w Roboticists Learn to Teach Robots From Babies
Babies learn by watching and imitating what adults are doing, and robots can "learn" in much the same way, according to researchers at the University of Washington...
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Researchers Enlist Gamers to Find Something Fishy About Mathematical Models
Uppsala University researchers recently used an online game to assess how good mathematical models were at reproducing the collective motion of real fish schools...
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Zero to Expert in Eight Hours: These Robots Can Learn For Themselves
A yellow robotic arm pauses over a pile of metal cylinders, snaps a photo, then proceeds to confidently pick pieces out of the jumble.
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge niversity
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...
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Telepresence Robot For the Disabled Takes Directions from Brain Signals
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals.
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