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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Novel Nanostructures Could Usher in Touchless Displays
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany.
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
The University of Maryland's Autonomy, Robotics, and Cognition Lab is developing robots that can learn how to do a new job by watching others do it first.
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Predicting Change in the Alzheimer's Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a computer system that uses multiple types of data to help predict the effects of disease on brain...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Self-Healing Airplanes
Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University have launched an Aerospace Data Analytics Lab to mine insights from the vast body of data generated by the aerospace industry...
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.
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Scientists Tap Dragonfly Vision to Build a Better Bionic Eye
What can humans learn from dragonflies?
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New Auto Safety Technologies Leave Some Drivers Bewildered
Many Americans buying new cars these days are baffled by a torrent of new safety technology.
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One Brain to Teach Them All
How the new field of cloud robotics will impact intelligent machines.
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Search Engine For More Accurate and Fast Recognition of Metabolites
A new machine learning-based search engine could benefit scientists in the life and medical sciences.
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A Manifesto For Algorithms in the Environment
Researchers at Stockholm University researcher are developing a Biosphere Code Manifesto.
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...
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On What Facebook Knows--An Interview With the Man Behind Facebook's Personality Experiment
A researcher discusses a report issued earlier this year on how individuals' Facebook activities could be used to measure their psychological profiles.
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More-Flexible Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...
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Pluto's Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon—and these pictures show a surprisingly...
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Hidden Gps Devices to Track Suspects Raise Legal Concerns
For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie and black ski mask...
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New Tech Automatically 'tunes' Powered Prosthetics While Walking
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can automatically tune powered prosthetic legs.
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Meet Seemore: Maker Faire's Mesmerizing 256-Node Computer Cluster
One of the centerpieces of the recent World Maker Faire in New York City was SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed to illustrate the concept of parallel computing...
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IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors
IBM scientists on Thursday reported they have found a method to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.
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