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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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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
One day in March of 2000, six of Google's best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room.
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Is the Artificial Pancreas a Game Changer?
Researchers have developed software that automatically the monitors blood glucose levels of patients with Type 1 diabetes.
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How the .K. Plans to Teach Computer Science to Every Child
The Raspberry Pi startup will train 40,000 U.K. teachers to teach computer science, with the ultimate goal of teaching computer science to all U.K. schoolchildren...
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Fearful of Bias, Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool
In May, Google introduced a feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type, but will not suggest gender-based pronouns.
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Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver
Jouarre, a nursing facility outside Paris, is using a robot to help care for elderly patients.
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As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
In response to the diminishing supply of immigrant labor, the U.S. agriculture sector is increasingly turning to robots that can do the work traditionally done...
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What's Next for NASA's New Mars Lander?
The new Mars lander will begin investigating the planet's interior in several months, after deploying and calibrating a burrowing heat probe and a suite of seismometers...
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Maryland Test Confirms Drones Can Safely Deliver Human Organs
University of Maryland researchers have tested organ delivery via aerial drone.
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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Breaking the Code: Program Trains Young Adults for Computer Industry
A program sponsored by the Resilient Coders nonprofit is training young adults of color in the Boston area to break into the computer industry.
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AI Is Watching Employee Expenses
AppZen has developed an artificial intelligence program that can identify dubious work expense claims and educate employees about travel and expense policies.
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Technology for the Deaf
Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?
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This Company Is Helping Build China's Panopticon. It Won't Stop There
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Amazon, Google Poised for Race to Hire High-Tech Talent
Amazon and Google are respectively planning to recruit Microsoft C#- and Java-savvy engineers and Python users in a fierce competition for technology talent.
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What Complex Technology Can Learn From Simple Ants
Ants' pheromone-laying and -following behavior has inspired an algorithm that uses artificial ants in a virtual environment to solve optimization problems.
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AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect
Scientists warn that hackers could weaponize artificial intelligence to conceal and accelerate cyberattacks and potentially escalate their damage.
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Researchers Rev p Review of Peer Review
Although the global scientific community is becoming more diverse, developing ways to make certain peer reviewers are true "peers" is lagging behind.
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Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday.
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Talent Gap Widens as Firms Battle for AI, Data Skills
A new study predicts demand for information technology workers will outstrip supply, due to growth in digital technologies, tighter labor markets, and few workers...
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