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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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Technologies for the Visually Impaired
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
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Tracking COVID, Discreetly
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
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Implantable Device Can Monitor, Treat Heart Disease
Researchers designed a rubbery bioelectronic cardiac patch that can be implanted on the heart to monitor its health.
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Getting Light-based Internet Right
Wireless Internet via light could well be a job for lasers, rather than LEDs.
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Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams to Bring Broadband to Remote Regions
An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio...
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Computer Model Can Predict How Covid-19 Spreads in Cities
A team of researchers has developed a computer model that accurately predicted Covid-19's spread in 10 major cities earlier this year.
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Robots Now Can Understand What You Are Saying to Follow Commands
University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that simplifies robots' ability to follow commands by allowing them to understand what people are saying...
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Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality
Silicon Valley companies are scooping up Hollywood digital visual-effects artists and technology to enhance their augmented and virtual reality products with lifelike...
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Dart-Shooting Drone Attacks Trees for Science
Researchers have come up with a method to increase the efficiency of setting up sensor networks by using a drone as a launching platform for laser-aimed, sensor...
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'Sneakernet' Helps Election Officials Process Results
U.S. election officials used voting machines and other devices linked to the "sneakernet" to process results from Tuesday's elections.
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Software Can Spy on What You Type in Video Calls by Tracking Your Arms
A new model can track the movement of the shoulders and arms of a person typing during a video call to determine what they are typing.
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Motorists' Smartphones May Help Highway Bosses Keep Roads Safe
High-resolution three-axis accelerometers and GPS tracking built into smartphones, along with an app, can provide useful measures of road roughness for civil engineers...
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Does Palantir See Too Much?
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.
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Remote Work Not Just for White-Collar Jobs Anymore
Technology that allows people to perform physical work remotely is proliferating across a host of occupations.
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The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone
Washington DC-based nonprofit Upturn found law enforcement officials regularly break into encrypted smartphones, and police in all U.S. states have phone-hacking...
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Terahertz Networks Move Closer to Reality
The desire for faster, higher-frequency wireless networking is a constant. Terahertz technology could deliver large gains.
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Microsoft Teams With Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Push Cloud Battle With Amazon Into Orbit
The space-cloud initiative is targeting military and commercial customers and comes after Amazon announced its own space effort,
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