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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire—forever.
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Drivers, These Robots Have Your Back
Automated safety systems can prevent an accident before the driver is even aware of the possibility.
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the S Even Further Behind
This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.
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'ransomware' Cyberattack Highlights Vulnerability of niversities
The first Patrick Feng knew about a cyberattack on his university was when one of his colleagues told him that her computer had been infected by hackers and rendered...
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Google Tackles Challenge of How to Build an Honest Robot
Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase—or...
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Nasa's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star
Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected.
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When Will Computers Have Common Sense? Ask Facebook
Facebook is well known for its early and increasing use of artificial intelligence.
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AI Just Got a Big Boost in Its Ability to nderstand the News
Stanford University researchers say they have developed an algorithm that outperforms Google's DeepMind in reading and understanding written content.
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First Human Test of CRISPR Proposed
A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Keyboard Warriors: South Korea Trains New Frontline in Decades-Old War with North
In one college major at Seoul's elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders.
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Smile, You're in the Fbi Face-Recognition Database
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has access to as many as 411.9 million images as part of its face-recognition database.
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Ligo Detects Whispers of Another Black-Hole Merger
Just before 4 a.m. on 26 December, B. S. Sathyaprakash woke up to some good news: gravitational waves had been detected for only the second time in history.
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft to Risk Jupiter's Fireworks For Science
On July 4, NASA will fly a solar-powered spacecraft the size of a basketball court within 2,900 miles (4,667 kilometers) of the cloud tops of our solar system's...
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Fighting Isis With an Algorithm, Physicists Try to Predict Attacks
After Orlando and San Bernardino and Paris, there is new urgency to understand the signs that can precede acts of terrorism.
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Rover Opportunity Wrapping p Study of Martian Valley
"Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover...
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A Simpler Twist of Fate
Until the day it dies, a cell that has become a skin cell remains a skin cell—or so scientists used to think.
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Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury
High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband...
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