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Vaccinated? Show Us Your App
Recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine may eventually be given digital health credentials in order to travel, go to work or school, visit entertainment venues, and...
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Create Realistic VR Experience Using Normal 360-Degree Camera
Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Bath have captured 360-degree virtual reality video footage using a commercially available camera on a rotating selfie stick...
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'Electronic Amoeba' Finds Approximate Solution to Traveling Salesman Problem in Linear Time
Researchers at Hokkaido University and Amoeba Energy in Japan developed an analog computer to find a reliable, speedy solution to the traveling salesman problem...
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The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
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'Accessible Christmas,' an Application That Allows Blind People to Enjoy Christmas Lights
Visually impaired people can enjoy Christmas lights in Madrid through a mobile application from researchers at Spain's Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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Smarter Traffic Lights, Calmer Commuters
Advances in technology may come to a corner near you, easing traffic and possibly helping the environment.
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Drones Are Poised to Reshape Home Design
A rethink of home design may be needed to accommodate remote drone delivery, which could reconfigure entire neighborhoods to establish designated drone airspace...
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Consumers Increasingly Touch on Contactless Payments
The ability to pay touch-free during the Coronavirus pandemic is persuading more consumers and retailers to go contactless.
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Coronavirus Apps Show Promise but Prove a Tough Sell
Despite pilot studies demonstrating that smartphone applications can slow Covid-19 transmission, buy-in from people and states is lacking.
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App Aims to Reduce Deaths From Opioid Overdose
A Philadelphia-based pilot study tested an application for volunteers, which alerts them to opioid overdoses requiring naloxone.
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Computer Science Professor, Postdoc Launch Online Database on History of Slavery
"Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade," a database collecting archives and entries documenting the lives of those who were enslaved, owned slaves, or...
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Computing Empowers Immune Cells to Kill Cancer
A team of computer scientists and bioengineers has developed a method of engineering T cells to recognize a specific combination of cancer markers.
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Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Emotion artificial intelligence applications in healthcare are rare, with many scientists skeptical of the technology's utility.
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Mathematicians Apply 19th Century Ideas to Modern Computerized Algebra Systems
Mathematicians have added new symbolic integration functionality to the Sage computerized algebra system.
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
A Swiss publisher of open-access journals has rolled out a robotic review assistant to check for potential conflicts of interest.
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Disney Is Teaching Robots How to Sculpt with Clay
Researchers created a system that allows human artists to train robots to sculpt clay, with tools that allow them to emulate artistic styles.
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Search and Rescue Drones Use AI to Find People Lost in Woods
New drones are equipped with a deep learning application that improves the images they collect during search and rescue missions to better distinguish people from...
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China's Xi Jinping Pushing for Global Covid QR Code
Chinese president Xi Jinping has called for a uniform set of policies and standards to ensure the "smooth functioning" of the global economy during the pandemic...
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Training AI Algorithms on Mostly Smiling Faces Reduces Accuracy, Introduces Bias
Researchers found that facial recognition systems show bias toward certain facial expressions.
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