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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Graphene Holds Key to Unlocking Creation of Wearable Electronic Devices
Researchers have developed a technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibers commonly associated with the textile industry.
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7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What the Next Decade Will Bring
The Huffington Post recently queried seven futurists about what the next decade of science and technology might hold.
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A Pioneering Facial Recognition Cane For the Blind
Students at Birmingham City University have developed a smart cane that uses facial recognition technology to enable the visually impaired to identify friends and...
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Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway.
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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How Daimler Built the World's First Self-Driving Semi
Christian Urban waves his hands to make a point, then looks at his nails and cracks wise about needing a manicure.
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Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right direction...
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California Launches Digital Democracy Project
California officials have launched Digital Democracy, an online and interactive platform aimed at improving transparency in state government.
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Google's Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow Face the Mean Streets of Today
Google says its self-driving cars will be good for road safety because they can pay better attention to the road than humans do.
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Wearable Gadgets Portend Vast Health, Research, and Privacy Consequences
New devices can provide the average person with unprecedented access to quantifiable information about their bodies.
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies...
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Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...
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Emotion Detection Software sed to Design Advertising
Mexican computer specialist Enrique Leon Villeda helped revolutionize advertising by developing software to assess the emotions of a person considering consumer...
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w Researchers Hack a Teleoperated Surgical Robot to Reveal Security Flaws
Researchers recently conducted a series of experiments to test how attackers could hijack remote-controlled surgical robots, and to make such operations more secure...
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Google Embeds Engineers as Professors
Google is placing engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, where they teach, mentor, and advise on curriculum.
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Wearable Technology Finds Its Place on Campus
Several universities are experimenting with wearable technologies as a way to improve classroom instruction.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Engineers of Addiction
You can play a slot machine in Las Vegas before you've even reached baggage claim: there are tiny slots parlors in every terminal of McCarran International Airport...
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Researchers Design New Tiny Qwerty Soft Keyboards For Wearable Devices
New technology could serve as a text-entry system for wearable devices that have touchscreens.
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