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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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New Data Compression Method Reduces Big-Data Bottleneck; Outperforms, Enhances Jpeg
A new method of data compression outperforms existing techniques and could eventually be integrated into medical, scientific, and video-streaming applications.
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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.
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How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows
Interfaces can sense your mood, if you let them.
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'Peace Technologies' Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike
Ushahidi — or "testimony" in Swahili — has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
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Wikipedia's Secret Multilingual Workforce
Versions of Wikipedia content in different languages have little overlap, with the English edition, for example, containing just 51 percent of the articles in German...
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Never Forget a Face
A new algorithm makes subtle changes to various points on a face to make it more memorable without changing the subject's overall appearance.
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Nmsu Professor Shows There's More to Computer Science Than Gaming Careers
New Mexico State University researchers recently used real and computer-generated data to develop a software system to study biological systems.
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Adding MUSCLE to Multiscale Simulations
The Multiscale Coupling Library and Environment 2 project is aimed at implementing and executing multiscale models with feedback loops.
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Hi-Tech Sensors Aim to Help Prevent Obesity
The European Union is funding a project that intends to use high-tech sensors to get young people to adopt healthy lifestyles.
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Algorithms Are Watching
New research involves the use of algorithms in data mining and the analysis of social networks to study how information moves within large social graphs.
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Running Shoe Warns of Danger
The European Union is backing the development of a running shoe that would help reduce injuries by providing feedback on running form and the workout routine.
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Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram
A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
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An App-Led Walk Down Memory Lane
The Memoir iPhone app accesses photos and status updates from a user's social networks based on the user's location, what is going on, and who else is around.
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Ten Times More Throughput on Optic Fibers
Researchers say they can dramatically increased the capacity of optical fibers by reducing the space required between pulses of light that transport data.
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Database Tracks Toxic Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals
Updates to an extensive toxicology database should make it easier to track information about the unintentional toxic effects of therapeutic drugs.
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Love Connection
Researchers have developed an algorithm for dating sites that uses a person's contact history to recommend compatible partners.
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Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
A new algorithm can rank the questions and answers on question and answer websites, while weeding out off-topic and irrelevant entries.
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2014 Bower Award Goes To… Validation
Edmund Clarke will receive the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
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Supercomputer-Driven Materials Design
The job of a materials scientist—to warp matter into new and useful forms—has historically involved a ridiculous amount of guesswork.
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