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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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All Systems Go for Second-Ever Mission to Enter Mercury's Orbit
A European rocket is ready to launch the most ambitious mission ever taken towards Mercury, Earth's once-neglected sibling in the Solar System.
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An Evaluation of the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoffs of Neural Language Models
Researchers studying the accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs of neural language models have proposed a simple technique to recover some perplexity using negligible memory...
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Google to Release DeepMind's StreetLearn for Teaching Machine Learning Agents to Navigate Cities
Google is preparing a November release of its DeepMind unit's StreetLearn dataset for training machine learning models to navigate cities without a map.
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Learning to se Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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pdate on Opportunity Rover after Martian Dust Storm
One month since increasing their commanding frequency, engineers have yet to hear from NASA's Opportunity rover.
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Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse
Writer Bruce Schneier is a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Riskiest Landing of Japan's Asteroid Mission Delayed ntil January
Touchdown of the Hayabusa2 mothership has been postponed because of unexpectedly rough terrain.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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The Pentagon's Push to Program Soldiers' Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.
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AI Tool Automatically Reveals How to Write Apps That Drain Less Battery
A new tool uses artificial intelligence to determine if a specific application feature should be improved to drain less battery power from a mobile device.
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New Technology Allows Spinal Cord Patients to Drive a NASCAR Race Car
Mechanics and electronics specialists collaborated to develop an adaptive auto that can be driven by quadriplegics.
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Mars Virtual Reality Software Wins NASA Award
A mixed-reality software that allows scientists and engineers to virtually walk on Mars recently received NASA's 2018 Software of the Year Award.
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Facebook Tackles Rising Threat: Americans Aping Russian Schemes to Deceive
When Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress last month about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault, a website called Right Wing News sprang...
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Supercharged Crime-Scene DNA Analysis Sparks Privacy Concerns
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...
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The Ick of AI That Impersonates Humans
Philip K. Dick was living a few miles north of San Francisco when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which envisioned a world where artificially intelligent...
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All Eyes on Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael plowed into the Florida panhandle Wednesday, Oct. 10, as a major Category 4 storm—the strongest hurricane ever to hit that region.
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Researchers Develop Novel Technique to Locate Robots, Soldiers in GPS-Challenged Environments
Scientists have developed an algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where global positioning systems are unavailable.
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Google, Facebook Team p on Artificial Intelligence Tech
Google and Facebook researchers are working together to make Facebook's open source PyTorch framework interoperate with Google's custom machine learning chips. ...
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