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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Here's How to Track the Smartphone Apps That Are Tracking You
Two complementary research projects plan to cooperate further to help smartphone users monitor how apps handle their personally identifiable information.
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High-Silica 'halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars
Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long...
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...
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New Scaling Law Predicts How Wheels Drive Over Sand
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on model planes that have been scaled down to fit inside...
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Heads p: Augmented Reality Prepares For the Battlefield
At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research...
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Russian Hackers Are sing 'tainted' Leaks to Sow Disinformation
Over the past year, the Kremlin's strategy of weaponizing leaks to meddle with democracies around the world has become increasingly clear, first in the US and more...
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What Self-Driving Cars See
Giant tech companies are fighting over the technology in court. Start-ups around the world are racing to develop new versions of it. And engineers say it is essential...
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Waltzing Robot Teaches Beginners How to Dance Like a Pro
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a robotic dance instructor.
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from Nasa's Juno Mission
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized...
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That Time the Soviets Bugged Congress, and Other Spy Tales
During a private meeting in the Oval Office earlier this month, President Donald Trump is understood to have disclosed highly classified intelligence to two senior...
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Stanford Scholars, Researchers Discuss Key Ethical Questions Self-Driving Cars Present
Stanford University scholars discuss the challenging ethical ramifications of driverless vehicles.
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How to Prevent 3D Printing Hacks? Install Secret Flaws and Share the Decoder Ring
Researchers say they have developed techniques manufacturers can use to thwart intellectual property thieves.
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Detecting Life In Space: The Red Edge
The universe's "most interesting star" just started acting up again.
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sing Bitcoin to Prevent Identify Theft
A new system uses bitcoin's security mechanisms to foil online identify thieves.
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Google's Alphago Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win For AI
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program beat a Chinese world champion in the first of three Go games held this week.
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Curiosity May Be Vital For Truly Smart AI
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Speeding p Quality Control For Biologics
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
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