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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Mathematics Can Assist Cities in Addressing nstructured Neighborhoods
New mathematical models can help guide changes to the layout of poor urban neighborhoods to improve access to resources.
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The Outlook for Reality: Mixed
Exploring new frontiers in augmented and virtual reality.
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Model Can More Naturally Detect Depression in Conversations
A new neural network model can analyze raw text and audio data from clinical interviews to detect speech patterns signaling depression.
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Engineering Tour de Force Births Programmable Optical Quantum Computer
There comes a moment in every physicist's life when they think the unthinkable: I wish I were an engineer. I suspect this thought crossed the minds of the 14-odd...
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First In-Home Test of Brain-Computer Communication by ALS Patients Offers Promise Amidst Challenges
Researchers have demonstrated the reliability of a brain-computer interface that gives patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a means to communicate by thought...
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Google and Harvard Made AI to Predict Earthquake Aftershocks
Google and Harvard University researchers have trained a neural network to accurately predict the locations of future aftershocks.
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This Lens-less Camera Is Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs
Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets...
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Artificial Intelligence Nails Predictions of Earthquake Aftershocks
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Takes First Picture of Distant Rock It Will Visit
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft still has 100 million miles to go, but it has taken its first snapshot of the space rock that will be its date for New Year's Day...
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AI-Human Partnerships Tackle 'Fake News'
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, inaccurate and misleading articles burned through social networks.
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AI Can Predict If Your Musical Taste Is More Ice T...or Vanilla Ice
Researchers have developed a system that uses machine learning algorithms and psychological models to infer a person's "musical sophistication."
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niversity of Illinois Researchers Develop Method to Cancel Noise Without Ear-Blocking Headphones
The University of Illinois' Coordinated Science Laboratory has developed a noise-cancelling technique that does not require ear canal-blocking headphones.
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Blockchaining the Arts
Blockchain's undeletable data can address privacy and security issues in the fine art markets.
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Here's What We Know about Google's Mysterious Search Engine
President Trump thinks Google's search engine is "rigged." By featuring more mainstream news outlets and relatively fewer conservative sites in the results he sees...
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Researchers Find Way to Spy on Remote Screens, through the Webcam Mic
Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens?
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Robotic Guide Dog Leads Arizona State niversity Team to 1st Prize at Intel Cup
Arizona State University students' robotic guide dog received first prize at the 2018 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest in Shanghai, China.
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Bots, Russian Trolls Influenced Vaccine Discussion on Twitter
Social media bots and Russian trolls spread discord and misinformation about vaccines on Twitter.
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How Trump Could Hurt Google
President Donald Trump's Tuesday morning attack on Google for delivering "rigged" search results met with a swift denial from the company, but Trump's threat to...
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Scientists Hope Artificial Stupidity Could Save Humans
Some scientists are suggesting limiting how smart artificial intelligence can get—all the way down to human intelligence.
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