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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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World's Largest Robot Hauls Ore Through Western Australia
The world's largest robot is an autonomous train that hauls tons of material across Australia.
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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How They Did It (and Will Likely Try Again): GR Hackers vs. S Elections
In a press briefing just two weeks ago, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned...
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A Fault-Tolerant System for Stopping 'Leaks' in Quantum Computers
Researchers at Yale University have designed a system to prevent future quantum computers from "leaking" errors in ancillary quantum bits to logical qubits.
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Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve
The mind-reading headsets won't read minds.
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Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers
Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.
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Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer fears intensify as self-driving car fatalities dent the driverless dream.
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There's Water on Mars! Signs of Buried Lake Tantalize Scientists
A large saltwater lake seems to lurk under ice near Mars's south pole.
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Hordes of Research Robots Could Be Hijacked for Fun and Sabotage
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...
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How .S. Intelligence Agencies Can Find Out What Trump Told Putin
President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin hobbled U.S. intelligence agencies that would usually...
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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Not Quite Quantum Computing
Fujitsu says its "Quantum-Inspired" Digital Annealing is capable of tackling combinatorial optimization problems.
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"I Was Devastated": Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets
"For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it," Tim Berners-Lee told me one...
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Faster Photons Could Enable Total Data Security
Scientists have generated rapid single-photon light pulses, each of which representing a bit of binary code.
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This Bomb-Simulating S Supercomputer Broke a World Record
Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem.
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Private Messaging Apps Increasingly sed for Public Business
One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record.
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Welcome to the Airport of the Future, Where Your Face Is Your Passport
Australia is a bloody long way from the rest of the world.
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First Machine Learning Method Capable of Accurate Extrapolation
Researchers have developed a machine learning method that uses observations to accurately extrapolate all possible conditions shaped by the same physical dynamics...
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