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Smart Jumpsuit Provides Information on Infants' Movement, Development
Researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed a smart jumpsuit that measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants.
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Half of Technology Workers Want to Find a New Job in 2020
A survey by recruitment firm Harvey Nash found half of 1,200 technology professionals in the U.K. would like to switch jobs in 2020, with salary and work-life balance...
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Data Driving New Approaches to Transportation
Shifts in transportation highlight cities' need for data management to cope with traffic, digital platforms, and other trends.
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AI Shortcuts Speed Simulations Billions of Times
Researchers used artificial intelligence to generate accurate machine learning emulator algorithms for accelerating simulations billions of times, for all scientific...
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From Detecting Lung Cancer to Spotting Counterfeit Money, a New Imaging Technology Could Have Countless Uses
Spectrally encoded enhanced representations is a new color spectrum identification method that provides greater clarity and works faster and at greater definition...
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Deep Learning Accurately Forecasts Heat Waves, Cold Spells
A new computer system used deep learning to teach itself to accurately predict extreme weather events like heat waves and cold spells, based on a minimal amount...
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Good at StarCraft? DARPA Wants to Train Military Robots with Your Brain Waves
The University at Buffalo's gaming project is all about trying to make machines that think more like humans.
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Finding a Face in the Crowd
Prototype software will make it easier to track people, individually or in groups.
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Computer Simulation for Understanding Brain Cancer Growth
A new three-dimensional simulation combines the macroscopic scale of tissue with the microscopic scale of individual cells to realistically model the mechano-biology...
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Robot Submarine Snaps First Images at Foundation of Antarctic Glacier
A robotic submarine captured the first-ever images of the foundations on the ocean floor of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
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Improving AI's Ability to Identify Students Who Need Help
A new artificial intelligence model can predict the extent of students' absorption of knowledge via educational gameplay.
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Researcher Creates Drone System to Give Early Warning on Natural Disasters
A Queen's University Belfast researcher developed a drone system that can warn of natural disasters, and function as a Wi-Fi hotspot should telecommunications be...
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World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Carnegie Mellon University graduate Lingdong Huang has created the first programming language based on classical Chinese.
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What if Half of Switzerland's Rooftops Produced Electricity?
Researchers in Switzerland are using machine learning algorithms, geographical information systems, and physical models to estimate the overall photovoltaic potential...
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Wearable Tech Tells Drowsy Truckers It's Time to Pull Over
Trucking companies are equipping drivers with wearable monitors that check for signs of fatigue, and notify them when it’s time to pull over and rest.
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Algorithm Can Infer Velocity, Pressure from Video of Fluid Flows
Researchers at Brown University have developed an algorithm that can determine the velocities and pressures of a fluid flow by analyzing video of the flow.
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Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
Facebook has agreed to play $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois.
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Iowa Caucus Chaos Likely to Set Back Mobile Voting
The failure of a vote-recording app used in the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus may set back online voting.
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Teaching Tomorrow's Automobiles to Hear
A new system allows self-driving cars to recognize external noises such as sirens.
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