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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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CA Says General Motors Can Test Fully Driverless Cars on Its Roads
"Before the end of the year, we'll be sending cars out onto the streets of SF—without gasoline and without anyone at the wheel," Cruise CEO Dan Ammannwrote in a...
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'Machines Set Loose to Slaughter': the Dangerous Rise of Military AI
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt...
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How Old is Your Brain?
Machine learning can help assess the physical age of one’s brain.
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Can Businesses Keep Up With Cyber Threats?
Market research firm Gartner forecasts cybersecurity spending by companies and governments will grow 9% annually from 2021 to 2024.
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Squeezing Light Inside Memory Devices Could Help Improve Performance
Researchers led by the U.K.'s University of Cambridge have developed a technique for "squeezing" visible light in order to probe nanoscale memory devices,.
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NASA Advancing 3D Printing Construction Systems for Bases on the Moon, Mars
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is collaborating with construction technology firm ICON to develop a space-based construction system.
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Researchers Use Flying Insects to Drop Sensors Safely
Researchers have created a 98-milligram sensor that can be deployed by riding on a small drone or an insect and being dropped when it reaches its destination.
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The LAFD just hired America's first firefighting robot
On Tuesday, the 3,500-pound RS3 helped to put out a fire in downtown Los Angeles.
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Banishing Blackouts
An Argonne researcher upgrades supercomputer optimization algorithms to boost reliability and resilience in U.S. power systems.
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AI Shakes Up the Seismology World
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of earthquakes and other seismological events
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Split-Second 'Phantom' Images Can Fool Tesla's Autopilot
Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev found they could fool Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance systems into automatically reacting without...
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Software Spots, Fixes Hang Bugs in Seconds
New software developed at North Carolina State University can identify and fix so-called hang bugs.
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Woolworths Launches Automated eStore in Melbourne
Woolworths in Australia is using technology to accelerate delivery of online orders and potentially improve order accuracy.
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China's Quiet Experiment Let Millions View Long-Banned Websites
China allowed millions of its citizens access to long-banned foreign websites like YouTube and Instagram in a two-week experiment of the Tuber mobile browser application...
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AI Researchers Challenge a Robot to Ride a Skateboard in Simulation
Researchers have developed a framework for controlling four-legged robots that is more energy efficient and adaptable than traditional model-based gait control....
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Tax Agency Watchdog Is Investigating IRS Use of Cellphone Location Data
U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russel George said he will review Internal Revenue Service use of software that enables warrantless surveillance...
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12 European Companies, Research Labs Join Forces to Boost Industrial Quantum Computing Applications
The NExt ApplicationS of Quantum Computing project hopes to demonstrate practical use cases for the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices that soon will be available...
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Here Come the Swarmbots
Switzerland's EFPL has developed inexpensive prototype bots that can be used to form, and act as, swarms.
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The Army is Testing AR Goggles for Dogs
The U.S. military is working on new ways for soldiers and their dogs to communicate.
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