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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Improved Approach to the 'Traveling Salesperson Problem' Could Boost Logistics, Transport Sectors
Researchers have developed an enhanced approach to the Traveling Salesperson Problem that yields high-quality solutions at a faster rate than other cutting-edge...
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House-Flipping Algorithms are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying's failure doesn't signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.
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Estimating the Informativeness of Data
MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
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Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat Wave of Nurse Burnout
Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
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Surveillance Drone Saves Power by Deliberately Crashing into Walls
New York University researchers have built a small surveillance drone able to extend its battery life by attaching itself to a wall and powering down its rotors...
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NEC X Announces Fifth AI Start-Up from its Corporate Accelerator Program
Start-up Beagle Technology addresses agricultural labor shortage and cost issues with new automated pruning technology for the wine industry.
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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Europe to Slap New Regulations on Big Tech, Beating U.S. to the Punch
European policymakers reached a deal on the Digital Services Act which would force Silicon Valley companies to more aggressively police harmful content on their...
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Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
As more nursing home and assisted living facility staff leave the profession, some facilities are turning to robots to fill in the gaps.
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Your iOS App May Still Be Covertly Tracking You, Despite What Apple Says
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford found that iOS apps can still track users without explicit permission.
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Reducing COVID-19 Patients' Breathing Efforts Could Be Key to Success of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support
A team of researchers demonstrated that non-invasive respiratory support is more likely to be successful if it relies on significantly reducing patients' efforts...
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Improving Georgia Land Conservation Through Algorithms
Researchers at the University of Georgia developed an algorithm for assessing a tract of land's conservation value by factoring in variables excluded from other...
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Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations
Physics-informed machine learning is gaining attention, but suffers from training issues.
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Raising Robovoices
New systems can model and synthesize voices, and even translate them into other languages.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health
How AI can be used to improve diagnosis of mental health conditions.
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U.S. Drone Company Zipline Starts Delivering Medicine in Japan
U.S. drone firm Zipline is delivering medical supplies to pharmacies and hospitals in southwestern Japan via aerial drones.
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Robotic Rat Climbs, Crawls, Turns on a Dime
Qing Shi and colleagues at China's Beijing Institute of Technology built a rat-inspired robot that can squeeze through tight spaces, which could be used to assess...
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Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
Columbia University computer scientists developed an algorithm that can block smart devices from spying on users by generating extremely quiet sounds.
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AI Researcher Says Police Tech Suppliers are Hostile to Transparency
Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee's findings but questions whether its recommendations.
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