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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Carnegie Mellon Project Divides Everyday Tasks, Expenses In Ways Scientifically Calculated to Make Everyone Happy
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a free website that leverages decades of research on how to divide things equitably without resentment.
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Tanja Lange Leads Multi-Million Euro Project to Protect Data Against Quantum Computers
Eindhoven University of Technology cryptology professor Tanja Lange is leading a European project to protect data against quantum computers.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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The Cloud Is Dead. Long Live the Cloud
Inspired by the tech behind the digital currency Bitcoin, IBM and Samsung are rethinking how connected devices connect.
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Deep Learning Machine Solves the Cocktail Party Problem
Researchers have separated human voices from the background in a wide range of songs using some of the latest advances associated with deep neural networks.
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Ears, Grips, and Fists Take On Mobile Phone ser Id
Yahoo Labs' Bodyprint is a biometric authentication system that could be used to replace PIN codes for smartphones.
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Rehab Robot Harmony Introduced By t Austin Engineers
University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed a two-armed robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton.
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Vint Cerf on Acm, Internet Issues, and Quantum and Machine Computing
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet and vice president at Google, discusses modern challenges of the Internet, technologies of the future, and ACM.
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The Mission To Save The Internet By Rewiring It From The Name p
A international team has been quietly pondering how to rewrite the basic structure of the Internet—for our sakes.
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Robots May Look Like Job-Killers, But It's Hard to See in the Numbers
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?
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When Robot Personalities Mimic the Dead
The creation of robots with personalities mimicking celebrities and other deceased persons could be controversial in terms of how people may react to them.
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Online Voting a Step Closer Thanks to Breakthrough in Security Technology
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable people to cast an election vote online, even if their home computer is infected with malware...
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What Is Being Learned From Moocs? New Report Takes Stock
A new report released this week lays out the current state of research into massive open online courses.
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Detecting Human Life With Remote Technology
Flinders University engineering students have developed new technology to detect human life that they believe is more efficient than published techniques.
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Future 'top Guns' Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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Holograms Could Bring Videogame-Like Navigation to Your Car
There are plenty of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming.
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Olga Troyanskaya Brings Order to Big Data of Human Biology
Researchers at the Simons Center for Data Analysis have established how genes work together within 144 different human tissues and cell types.
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