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Training Facial Recognition on Some New Furry Friends: Bears
Silicon Valley software developers have trained facial recognition technology to monitor individual bears, as part of a project called BearID.
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AI May Help Identify Patients with Early-Stage Dementia
Scientists are exploring whether artificial intelligence can help clinicians better identify patients with early-stage dementia.
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Implantable Device Can Monitor, Treat Heart Disease
Researchers designed a rubbery bioelectronic cardiac patch that can be implanted on the heart to monitor its health.
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Researchers Isolate, Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that isolates and decodes behaviors based on signals from the brain.
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Computer Model Can Predict How Covid-19 Spreads in Cities
A team of researchers has developed a computer model that accurately predicted Covid-19's spread in 10 major cities earlier this year.
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AI Shows Potential to Gauge Voter Sentiment
Some technology experts believe using artificial intelligence to gauge voter sentiment could help to better understand the electorate.
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Flexible, More Reliable Sensor Developed
A new sensor material has high sensitivity but low hysteresis, paving the way for more accurate wearable health technology and robotic sensing.
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AI News Bias Tool Created by USC Computer Scientists
University of Southern California computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool to automatically detect bias in news.
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Robots Now Can Understand What You Are Saying to Follow Commands
University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that simplifies robots' ability to follow commands by allowing them to understand what people are saying...
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Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality
Silicon Valley companies are scooping up Hollywood digital visual-effects artists and technology to enhance their augmented and virtual reality products with lifelike...
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NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web
The U.K.'s National Health Service is among more than a dozen partners that have signed up for a pilot program of Tim Berners-Lee's new company to promote a new...
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AI Model Detects Asymptomatic Covid-19 Infections Through Cellphone-Recorded Coughs
A new artificial intelligence model between asymptomatic people infected with Covid-19 and healthy individuals via forced-cough recordings.
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Robots Help Answer Age-Old Question: Why do Fish School?
Researchers used biomimetic fish-like robots to demonstrate that fish save energy by swimming in schools without having to keep fixed distances from each other....
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Drone Technology Improves Ability to Forecast Volcanic Eruptions
An international team of researchers modified long-range drones that collect data from active volcanoes, in order to better forecast eruptions.
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How AI Can Help Save Forests
Scientists are developing artificial intelligence-driven methods to aid forest conservation by enabling a new level of real-time awareness.
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Tricking Fake News Detectors With Malicious User Comments
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated how fake news detectors can be manipulated through user comments.
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Software Can Spy on What You Type in Video Calls by Tracking Your Arms
A new model can track the movement of the shoulders and arms of a person typing during a video call to determine what they are typing.
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Motorists' Smartphones May Help Highway Bosses Keep Roads Safe
High-resolution three-axis accelerometers and GPS tracking built into smartphones, along with an app, can provide useful measures of road roughness for civil engineers...
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The Algorithm That Could Get You Back in the Office
As company offices reopen, some are using software to help them shuffle employees, schedule meetings, map office hot spots, and practice social distancing.
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