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Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But biomedical engineers are using the eyes to gain insight into the body.
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Reshaping Computer-Aided Design
Researchers have developed InstantCAD to facilitate interactive real-time editing, enhancement, and optimization of computer-aided design models via a simpler...
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...
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Holograms Taken to New Dimension
Researchers say they have developed a method to create inexpensive full-color two- and three-dimensional holograms.
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Level p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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Concerned About Connected Car Privacy? Bluetooth Sensors Used to Track Traffic
One big promise of the connected car revolution has been the potential to help clear up traffic problems.
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Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software
Researchers are using machine learning to train computers to build statistical models that can predict future criminal behavior.
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'perseverance Valley'
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large...
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We Could Build a Galactic Internet but It May Take 300,000 Years
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
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Robot Physical Therapist Helps People Walk Again After a Stroke
A new smart harness uses artificial intelligence to help people regain their mobility following certain neurological injuries.
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Mind-Reading Computer Moves Closer to Reality
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a mind-reading program that deciphers symbols that people have viewed.
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China's Got a Huge Artificial Intelligence Plan
China aims to make the artificial intelligence industry a "new, important" driver of economic expansion by 2020, according to a development plan issued by the State...
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Deepmind's Founder Says to Build Better Computer Brains, We Need to Look at Our Own
After decades in the wilderness, AI has swaggered back onto center stage.
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Titan Simulations Show Importance of Close Two-Way Coupling Between Human and Earth Systems
Researchers have used supercomputers to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in the Earth system with feedback from human activity...
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Nasa Catches Glimpse of Ancient and Elusive Object
NASA just caught a glimpse of the mysterious and elusive object that its New Horizons spacecraft will visit next.
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The Strange Topology That Is Reshaping Physics
Charles Kane never thought he would be cavorting with topologists. "I don't think like a mathematician," admits Kane, a theoretical physicist who has tended to...
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DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons
DARPA is known for issuing big challenges. Still, the mission statement for its new Neural Engineering Systems Design program is a doozy: Make neural implants that...
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