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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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Researchers Enlist Machine Learning in Malware Detection
Cylance researchers are using machine learning to improve malware detection.
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What We're Really Looking At When We Look at Pluto
The images of Pluto that the New Horizons probe beamed across 3 billion miles of hard vacuum are, in a word, breathtaking.
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Nasa's New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto
Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA's New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders...
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lster niversity Scientists Develop App With .s. Colleagues that Could Prevent Onset of Alzheimer's
A new app unveiled last week at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Washington, D.C., could help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
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Cyborg Cockroach and Drone Teams Can Locate Disaster Survivors
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed cyborg cockroaches to serve as search-and-rescue scouts during disasters.
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Connecting Artificial Intelligence With the Internet of Things
Oblong Industries CEO John Underkoffler does not believe a connection between the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence will become a threat to mankind...
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AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
DNA stores our genetic code in an elegant double helix. But some argue that this elegance is overrated.
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The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages
Java remains at the top of IEEE Spectrum's second annual ranking of programming languages.
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Computer Security Tools for Journalists Lacking in a Post-Snowden World
Researchers studying the computer security habits of journalists across two continents found security weaknesses in their technological tools and ad-hoc workarounds...
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The Next Frontier For Artificial Intelligence? Learning Human's Common Sense
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras is dubious human-like artificial intelligence is only a decade or two away.
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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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Silicon Brains Compete at Games
The 18th Computer Olympiad had programs vying against each other in strategic game-playing.
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3D Printed Electronics Are Here, Researchers Say
Researchers have demonstrated a method for three-dimensional printing of electrical components.
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Iarpa Funds Program to Predict Next Wave of Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a program to develop a framework for coupling threat indicators with external information sources...
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Web 2.0 (and Beyond): Developing the Next Generation of Connectivity
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Network Innovations is a network established to test next-generation networking concepts.
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Vibrant Pluto Stuns Scientists
They are 5 billion kilometres from the Sun in the dim, far-flung outskirts of the Solar System, but Pluto and its large moon Charon turn out to be astonishingly...
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