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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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sing Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry
China wants to transform its chip industry into a world leader by 2030 and become less reliant on foreign-sourced technology.
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Google Teams p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
Google is collaborating with Oxford University researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning...
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Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance...
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Is the City of the Future Finally Here?
A presentation during the Argonne OutLoud series considered how computer technologies can help mitigate challenges associated with increased urbanization.
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.
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sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War
Amin Rigi says drones should be used to save lives, not spy or kill.
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Scientists Consider Repurposing Robots For Ebola
Robotics scientists nationwide are pondering an intriguing possibility: Might robotic technologies deployed in rescue and disaster situations be quickly repurposed...
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Researchers Take Big-Data Approach to Estimate Range of Electric Vehicles
North Carolina State University researchers say they have developed a more accurate way to determine how far electric vehicles can go before needing a recharge. ...
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Electronics in the Operating Room
Electronic devices increasingly are being incorporated into surgical procedures on a functional level.
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Agencies Bring Energy Modeling Out of the Lab
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a database and software to help building professionals manage energy upgrades.
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Ask Watson or Siri: Artificial Intelligence Is as Elusive as Ever
Scientists are no closer to achieving an overall general artificial intelligence, in the sense that a computer can behave like a human.
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The Social Web of Things
Federal University of Bahia researchers suggest a social Internet of Things will enable people and their devices to be more coherently connected.
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The Internet Isn't Broken. It's Asleep
Researchers are leading an ambitious monitoring project that seeks to map out the Internet's "sleep" patterns to better discern normal downtime from major outages...
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New High-Speed Transatlantic Network to Benefit Science Collaborations Across the .s.
The U.S. Department of Energy is extending its Energy Sciences Network to Amsterdam, Geneva, and London.
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A Better Prosthesis: Sandia Invents Sensor to Learn About Fit
Researchers are developing a sensor to determine how an amputated limb changes over time, and a system that automatically accommodates those changes in a prosthesis...
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Weather History Time Machine
Researchers say their new spectral optimal gridding of precipitation software democratizes the analysis of precipitation statistical models.
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Superconducting Circuits, Simplified
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a nanocryotron , a computing circuit based on the cryotron.
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