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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Eyes in the Skies
Privacy concerns arise around the New York Police Department's drone program.
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Germany to Restrict Facebook's Data Gathering Activities
Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its...
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Extreme Chemistry: Experiments at the Edge of the Periodic Table
If you wanted to create the world's next undiscovered element, number 119 in the periodic table, here's a possible recipe.
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The CRISPR Machines that Can Wipe Out Entire Species
Charles Darwin had no idea what a gene was. If we dropped the father of evolution into 2019, the idea that humans can willfully alter the genes of an entire species...
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Winners Announced for the Zillow Prize
The Zillow Prize competition pitted nearly 4,000 teams against one another in an effort to develop a computerized system that could predict the future sale price...
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Lawmakers Put Pentagon's Cyber in Their Sights
Congress has a new rising target when it comes to cyber: The Pentagon.
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Scientists Connect Human Brain, 'Rat Cyborg' Brain Together
Chinese researchers have constructed a wireless brain-to-brain interface that enables a human to direct a rat through a maze.
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'Hamlet' in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play
Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Google have created a virtual reality (VR) version of "Hamlet" in which the viewer plays the ghost of Hamlet’s father...
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is...
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5 Reasons Why Autonomous Cars Aren't Coming Anytime Soon
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles...
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Engineers Program Marine Robots to Take Calculated Risks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm that lets autonomous underwater vehicles weigh the risks and rewards of exploring...
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This Video Game Tournament Will Test the Wits of Computers
Unity Technologies has announced the Obstacle Tower game and challenge, a video game tournament intended to contribute to artificial intelligence research.
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Harvard's Top Astronomer Says an Alien Ship May Be Among s, and He Doesn't Care What His Colleagues Think
Before he started the whole alien spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty....
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Computing Touch
Research groups working independently are closing in on imbuing limbs with a sense of touch via "e-dermis."
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Most People Overlook AI Despite Flawless Advice
U.S. Army researchers and colleagues have found a persistent gap in basic knowledge about the use of artificial intelligence.
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Digital Design, QB Investments Could Aid Football Helmets
Major football helmet manufacturers are funding and refining new digitally designed models with enhanced safety features.
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Putting Neural Networks nder the Microscope
Researchers have developed a method of identifying individual nodes in neural networks that capture specific linguistic features.
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Deep Learning 'Godfather' Bengio Worries About China's se of AI
Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried...
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IBM Facial Recognition Dataset Aims to Remove Gender, Skin Bias
IBM will provide a new million-image dataset to the global research community, to help developers eliminate gender and skin-type biases from facial recognition...
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