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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Arm Tries to Spread Its Chips to Forests, Felds, and Factories
Forest fire on the way? Building stress getting too high? Farmland too moist?
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory
You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
From ACM TechNews
Blind Lead the Way in Brave New World of Tactile Technology
People are better and faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and several fingers, according to new research.
From ACM Careers
Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?
The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...
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Ibm: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon
For more than a decade, engineers have been fretting that they are running out of tricks for continuing to shrink silicon transistors.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving. Now, it's driving a market that's expected to be worth $50.2 billion by 2020.
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Machines Finally Match Monkeys in Key Image-Recognition Test
There are so many ways that humans are still superior to machines.
From ACM Careers
Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To Nyc's Subway
As Hurricane Sandy revealed almost two years ago, New York's 100-year-old subway is not a modern and robust system.
From ACM TechNews
Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything."
From ACM TechNews
Fake Followers for Hire, and How to Spot Them
Researchers have developed machine-learning software that can identify crowdturfing, a term for falsifying one's popularity on social media sites.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Gets Tougher
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is extending preparation time for the final round of its DARPA Robotics Challenge by six months.
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Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
Smartphones, GoPro cameras, and Google Glass are making it easy for anyone to shoot video anywhere.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
From ACM TechNews
Automotive Grade Linux Hits the Road
Car vendors have an open source platform for building embedded applications and features in Automotive Grade Linux.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
From ACM TechNews
UA-Developed Technology Helps Find Happy Middle Between Low Temps and High Bills
A monitor developed by researchers at the University of Arizona allows consumers to set the temperature in their homes based on how much they want to spend on electricity...
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High-Performance Data Replication Across Cloud Servers
Computer scientists in China have developed a system that can provide high-performance data replication across cloud servers.
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