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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Football Manager Knows How Different Teams Play the Game
Who really calls the shots in team sports?
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Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17—the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.
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'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?
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A Machine in the Co-Pilot's Seat
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...
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Computer-Human Hybrids Could Be Best at Scanning For Danger
In A world of algorithms, there are still a few places where humans reign supreme.
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Go On – Bend, Punch, and Step On This Transistor
Researchers at Japan's AIST and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed stretchable, tough electronics that could be incorporated into clothing,...
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Paving the Way for a Faster Quantum Computer
University of Vienna researchers have demonstrated a new quantum computing technique in which operations occur without a well-defined order. Researchers say the...
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For Virtual-Reality Movies, Old Methods Don't Fit New Medium
I'm standing on the bow of what looks to be a sunken pirate ship.
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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its...
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Tantalizing Discovery May Boost Memory Technology
Scientists at Rice University have created a solid-state memory technology based on tantalum oxide. Professor James Tour says the technology could be used to make...
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Octopus Genome Holds Clues to Uncanny Intelligence
With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus is like no other...
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Don't Panic, but the Universe Is Slowly Dying
We know that our universe has already lived through great number of exciting phases. But new research shows the universe has long passed its peak and is slowly...
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Human Weakness in Cybersecurity
The Joint Chiefs of Staff unclassified email system is now back online, after having been down for more than two weeks, following a breach that some officials have...
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For 40 Years, Computer Scientists Looked For a Solution That Doesn't Exist
Creating a faster method for performing the "edit distance" calculation — a challenge computer scientists have worked on for four decades — was demonstrated as...
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The Backbone of the Internet Could Detect Earthquakes, but No One's sing It
December 26, 2004: It is an idyllic morning at a beachside resort in Indonesia.
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3D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem
Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple...
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Scientist Fêted for 'Game-Changing' Research on Wireless Networks
UC Irvine professor Syed Jafar recently won the 2015 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for his work on network information theory. Jafar's work could...
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With Google as Alphabet, a Bid to Dream Big Beyond Search
Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called "Ten things we know to be true," an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into...
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Web's Random Numbers Are Too Weak, Researchers Warn
A study found shortcomings in the generation of the random numbers used to scramble or encrypt data.
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