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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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Tell Me Where You Are and I'll Tell You What I See
Fondazione Bruno Kessler researchers have developed a system that can analyze a mobile phone-produced photo and generate information about the location.
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An Implantable Antenna
A prototype silk biosensor could someday alert doctors to signs of disease.
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Finding Our Way with Digital Bread Crumbs
A Microsoft research project explores whether sensors in mobile devices could help us navigate without GPS.
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How the Internet Is Changing Language
"To Google" has become a universally understood verb, and many countries are developing their own Internet slang. But is the Web changing language, and is everyone...
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Cult of Less: Living Out of a Hard Drive
Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some...
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Tech Guilt: 5 'persuasive' Technologies to Help You Be Good
Information is power, but does information—by itself—actually make people change their behavior?
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Tide Turns Against Million-Dollar Maths Proof
Initially hailed as a solution to the biggest question in computer science, the latest attempt to prove P ≠ NP—otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem—seems to...
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Nfl Considers Ball-Tracking Chips For Accuracy
From end zone to end zone, an NFL field is exactly 3,600 inches, and it’s easy enough for referees to spot a ball precisely when action stays within the bounds...
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Hiding Files in Flickr Pics Will Fool Web Censors
Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign Websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries...
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Gesture-Based Computing Takes a Serious Turn
Call me a creature of habit, but I approach any new computer interface with a sense of apprehension.
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CAVE Home to Cutting-Edge Experiments
Several projects are being conducted at the University of Illinois' simulation laboratory, which can test human perception and cognitive abilities, and can create...
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Research Aims to Improve Speech Recognition Software
Research conducted by Binghamton University's Stephen Zahorian aims to improve the accuracy of today's automatic speech recognition technology.
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Dual Antennas Would Boost Cell-Phone Signals
New design would mean fewer dropped calls, longer battery life.
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'god Couldn't Do Faster': Rubik's Cube Mystery Solved
It has taken 15 years to get to this point, but it is now clear that every possible scrambled arrangement of the Rubik's cube can be solved in a maximum of 20...
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Speech Recognition Systems Must Get Smarter, Professor Says
University of Rochester professor James Allen says the key to making speech-recognition systems less frustrating to use is giving them a deeper understanding of...
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In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding
In a match that pitted video game players against the best known computer program designed for the task, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out...
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Star Wars Meets Ups as Robonaut Packed For Space
Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either.
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A Sidewalk Disappearing Act
Automatically removing people from street-level imagery could help prevent privacy complaints.
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