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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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DeepMind Accurately Forecasts Weather on a Desktop Computer
Google DeepMind developed a machine-learning weather-forecasting model that outperformed the best conventional forecasting tools.
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Glasses Use Sonar, AI to Interpret Upper Body Poses in 3D
Cornell University researchers have developed a wearable device that uses inaudible soundwaves and artificial intelligence to track the user's upper body movements...
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Smart Emergency Responses to Severe Weather
A new system calculates the fastest routes for emergency services to respond to calls while factoring in traffic disruptions that may result from climate-related...
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Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease
The American Heart Association is removing race as a factor in predicting heart disease from a widely used cardiac-risk algorithm.
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How Quantum Computing Can Benefit Drug Discovery
Quantum computing aims to reduce cost and time.
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Rats Use Imagination to Navigate in VR
Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute tested whether rats, like humans, can use their thoughts to navigate a virtual environment.
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Thousands in Line to Get Brain Chip Implant by Elon Musk's Neuralink
The implant, designed to replace the removed skull piece, will read and analyse the person's brain activity and wirelessly relay this information to a nearby laptop...
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Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission
An algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers aims to identify potential failures in simulated autonomous systems prior to their real...
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Digital Twins May Enable Personalized Health Treatment
Combining data about the human body with patients’ personal data to create digital twins of their organs could lead to personalized treatments and help avoid medical...
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Smartphone Application Increases Safety in Liver Surgery
An international team of researchers developed a smartphone application that provides a personalized risk score for patients undergoing liver surgery.
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Finding Answers (About the Best Way to Find Answers)
Computer scientists at the University of Southern California considered which knowledge graph representations are best for different applications.
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Algorithm Aids in Early Detection of Age-Related Eye Disease
A new deep learning algorithm can predict whether an individual's age-related macular degeneration will progress to geographic atrophy, which is more severe, within...
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Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.
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Doctors Wrestle with AI in Patient Care
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of artificial intelligence tools has raised doubts among doctors about their ability to improve patient care.
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Vision via Sound for the Blind
Scientists have created "acoustic touch" technology that uses sound to help blind people "see."
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Smart Scalpel Helps Doctors Hone Surgical Skills
A smart scalpel developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Edinburgh measures the amount of force applied during surgical procedures and could facilitate...
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UMD-Led Research Powers Montgomery County's Prosecution Data Dashboard
University of Maryland researchers helped the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office roll out the state's first Prosecution Data Dashboard to clarify its handling...
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Checking for Counterfeit Medication Using a Smartphone
The SmartID barcode system developed by researchers at a group of Germany's Fraunhofer research institutes allows users to verify a medical product is genuine using...
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Gallaudet's Latest Technological Innovation Is a Helmet
Hearing-impaired football players could benefit from a prototype helmet that provides visual displays of plays.
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