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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'Sentient Data' May One Day Augment Soldier Capabilities
The director of intelligence for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command recently discussed the findings of its 2015 Mad Scientist Conference.
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Human vs Machine As Top Poker Pros Take On AI
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...
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A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired Chips
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.
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Crawling Toward a Wiser Web
Carrying out and storing a crawl of the Web requires access to significant storage and computing resources, but the Common Crawl Foundation is trying to change...
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Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.
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Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy
NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely.
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Computer Scientists Combine Computer Vision and Brain Computer Interface For Faster Mine Detection
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new method to speed the detection of landmines in sonar images of the ocean floor.
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A Mouse That Beats the Gamers at Super-Quick Motions
A new computer mouse looks and responds like a conventional mouse but offers nearly unlimited tracking speed.
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6 Big Data Projects to Aid Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will fund research to transform disaster management with big data and analytics...
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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Microsoft Age-Estimate Tool Unleashed Real-Time Virality
Microsoft's Project Oxford has launched a range of machine-learning application programming interfaces in beta, including How-Old.net.
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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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The Billion-Dollar Race to Reinvent the Computer Chip
Chipmakers are spending billions of dollars to develop new computing architectures as the ability to build more transistors into a chip approaches its physical...
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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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"fingerprinting" Chips to Fight Counterfeiting
Researchers are using microscopic variations to "fingerprint" silicon chips used in consumer-product tags to combat product counterfeiting.
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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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