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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Rats Took Over This Pacific Island. Now Drones Are Leading the Fightback
The conservation group Island Conservation plans to use drones to try to eliminate rats on Tetiaroa atoll and two other islands in French Polynesia, beginning in...
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Air-Powered Computer Memory Helps Soft Robot Control Movements
A new air-powered computer memory can be utilized to control soft robots, thanks to engineers at the University of California, Riverside.
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Scientists Warn of 'Bleak Cyborg Future' From Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers warn of the potential social, ethical, and legal consequences of technologies interacting heavily with human brains.
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ML Tool Sorts the Nuances of Quantum Data
A machine learning tool can parse quantum matter and identify relationships among microscopic properties in the data.
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Study Describes Tool for Improving Serious Illness Conversations
A new computer model can automatically analyze conversations between seriously ill people, their families, and palliative care specialists in epidemiological studies...
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Joke-Cracking Chatbots Boost Learning Levels
The role of humor in training, and conversing with, chatbots.
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From Macy’s to Albertsons, Facial Recognition is Already Everywhere
Customers are largely unaware that some of their favorite stores are using facial recognition tech.
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Bourdain Documentary's Use of A.I. to Mimic Voice Draws Questions
The documentary "Roadrunner" by Morgan Neville uses 45 seconds of a voice that sounds like Bourdain, generated with artificial intelligence. Is it ethical?
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Photonic Computers: The Future of Computing Is … Analogue
The future is optical. Photonic processors promise blazing fast calculation speeds with much lower power demands, and they could revolutionize machine learning....
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As Spain's Beaches Fill Up, Seaside Resort Sends in Drones
Officials in the town of Sitges in northeastern Spain are using drones for real-time crowd monitoring along 18 km of beach as COVID-19 cases rise.
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NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software's Accuracy for Flight Boarding
Tests of face recognition software indicate the most accurate algorithms are able to confirm airline passenger identities at boarding while committing few errors...
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Japan Shatters Internet Speed Record
Japanese engineers have broken the world Internet speed record with a 319 TB per second data transmission rate across more than 3,001 kilometers of fiber-optic...
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Stumble-Proof Robot Adapts to Challenging Terrain in Real Time
A new robotic locomotion model capable of real-time terrain adaptation has been developed by a multi-institutional research team.
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ECB Starts Work on Digital Version of the Euro
The European Central Bank has launched an initiative to produce a digital euro currency.
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Autonomous Drone Swarm Can Localize Gas Leaks
Scientists have engineered a swarm of tiny drones capable of autonomously detecting and localizing gas sources in cramped indoor settings.
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Facebook Sees Slight Decline in Female Worker Representation
Company says the gender gap in technical roles is especially challenging.
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Google Demonstrates Vital Step towards Large-scale Quantum Computers
Said Peter Knight at Imperial College London, "Without this advance, you will still have uncertainty about whether the roadmap towards fault tolerance was feasible...
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Concern Trolls and Power Grabs: Inside Big Tech’s Angry, Geeky, Often Petty War for your Privacy
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium, where the world's top engineers battle over the future of your data.
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At a Summer Camp, Juice Boxes and Bitcoin Mining
The Crypto Kids Camp hosted five days of activities in Los Angeles to familiarize 26 children ages five to 17 with money and cryptocurrency.
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