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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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a Pioneers More Effective Control For Border Patrol
Researchers are developing a framework for border surveillance that uses artificial intelligence to integrate data from different sources and respond in real time...
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AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust Between Humans and Computers
Researchers have received a $7.55-million grant to find new ways to have artificial intelligence explain its decision-making process to human users.
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Inside Earth, Visualized: Hd Video Models Planet's Core
Were it not for our Earth's magnetic field, the planet would be bombarded by charged particles from the sun.
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Face Scans For S Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step...
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Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's...
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Lights, Camera, Crispr: Biologists se Gene Editing to Store Movies in Dna
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
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11,000 Girls Compete in International Mobile App Challenge
Girls ages 10-18 from around the world are competing in the Technovation Challenge, a global effort to learn and apply technology to try to solve problems in their...
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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w's Lip-Syncing Obama Demonstrates New Technique to Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video
University of Washington researchers have developed a system that can take audio clips from one speech and sync them with video clips from another.
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Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix 'unruly' Gridlock
India's Gridlock Hackathon aims to find solutions to the congested roads that cost the economy billions of dollars.
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Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.
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First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient...
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot
NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit.
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.
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Fighting Tick-Borne Disease With Computer Science
Researchers are using new data on ticks in the southeastern U.S. to build mathematical models of how the grasses, wildlife, and ticks respond to different conditions...
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Study Finds 'smart' Transformers Could Make Reliable Smart Grid a Reality
North Carolina State University researchers are developing smart solid-state transformers that could be used to make a stable, reliable smart grid.
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Adding Humanity to Smart Machines
A chat with former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov about his new book, machine intelligence, and human creativity.
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More Progress on Carbon Nanotube Processors: A 2.8ghz Ring Oscillator
Back in 2012, I had the pleasure of visiting the IBM Watson research center.
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Sun's Gravity Could Power Interstellar Video Streaming
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...
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