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Using Crowdsourced Computing to Fight the Coronavirus
Folding@Home is more powerful than the world’s top seven supercomputers combined.
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AI Gauges Head Injuries by Classifying Brain Lesions
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can detect and classify different types of brain lesions, to gauge the impact of a head injury...
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App State Creates Pollinator-Tracking App
A new smartphone application tracks bees and other pollinators, as part of a project to monitor the world's pollinator population.
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This Robot Can Guess How You're Feeling by the Way You Walk
A new algorithm enables a small four-wheeled robot to perform real-time gait analysis in order to determine a walker's emotional state.
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COVID-19's YouTube Misinformation Outbreak
Study finds a quarter of most watched videos with "non-factual" information.
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Meet the Uninfectables
Hospital wards, grocery stores, and food delivery services are turning to robotic devices to better navigate the pandemic.
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Apple, Google Start to Win Over Europe to Their Virus-Tracking Technology
European nations are considering, or have opted for, technology developed by Apple and Google for smartphone contact-tracing applications to contain the coronavirus...
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Inside Big Tech’s High-stakes Race for Quantum Supremacy
Quantum computers used to be an impossible dream. Now, after a decade of research by some of the world's biggest tech companies, they're on the verge of changing...
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Fake It Till You Make It
Mock Interview websites let you practice your job-search interviewing skills.
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Risks Overshadow Benefits with Online Voting, Experts Warn
With a handful of U.S. states launching online voting pilots, many experts warn the technology carries more pitfalls than benefits.
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EU Robotics Project Gives Maintenance Workers a 'Second Pair of Hands'
A five-year EU effort to develop a proactive humanoid assistant as a "second pair of hands" for industrial workers has concluded with the development of a new robotic...
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Morocco Launches Fleet of DJI Drones to Tackle Coronavirus From the Sky
Morocco has expanded its fleet of aerial drones to help curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
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Australia Wins AI 'Eurovision Song Contest'
An Australian team won the unofficial AI ‘Eurovision Song Contest’.
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Planetary Exploration Rover Avoids Sand Traps with 'Rear Rotator Pedaling'
Researchers are developing next-generation planetary explorers that can negotiate hills and soft granular surfaces without getting stuck in sand traps.
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Digital Twinning
Many organizations using the Internet of Things have already implemented Digital Twins.
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Researchers Identify Potential Active Substances Against Coronavirus by Running Supercomputer Simulations
Researchers used the MOGON II supercomputer to identify several drugs approved for treating hepatitis C viral infection as potential candidates against COVID-19...
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Australian Military Gets First Drone That Can Fly With AI
The Royal Australian Air Force has received a prototype of a jet-powered drone that Boeing Australia said will use artificial intelligence to "fly independently...
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UC Berkeley Researchers Open-Source RAD to Improve Any Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
A team of researchers has open-sourced Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data.
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