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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
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Researchers Show Viability of 5g Communication With Record-Setting Data Rates
The world's longest bidirectional phased-array link in the 60 GHz band was announced by Keysight Technologies and the University of California, San Diego.
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Did the Russians 'hack' the Election? A Look at the Established Facts
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...
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AI Begins to Understand the 3D World
Artificial intelligence researchers are constructing systems that can visualize the three-dimensional world and take action.
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Big Data Projects Ramp p
Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.
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Quantum Computers Ditch All the Lasers For Easier Engineering
Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have replaced the millions of lasers in traditional quantum computing systems with several static magnets...
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Nasa Juno Mission Prepares For December 11 Jupiter Flyby
On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.
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Graphene-Spiked Silly Putty Picks p Human Pulse
A dash of graphene can transform the stretchy goo known as Silly Putty into a pressure sensor able to monitor a human pulse or even track the dainty steps of a...
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Taking Back Control of an Autonomous Car Affects Human Steering Behavior, Stanford Research Shows
A research team testing the handover of driving from autonomous cars to human drivers found such a shift can be difficult for people if conditions have changed...
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Inside the Big Dish that Brought US Tv from the Moon
The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most elegant scientific instruments ever built.
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Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find
There may never be enough hours in the day to get everything done, but at least the forces of nature are conspiring to help out.
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Mit's Modular Robotic Chain Is Whatever You Want It to Be
Researchers have developed an improved version of last year's LineFORM multifunctional snake robot that introduces modularity to the system.
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CLA Professors Stride Forward in Robotic Technology Research
University of California, Los Angeles computer scientists say recent artificial intelligence innovations are pushing robotic technology forward.
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A Year After San Bernardino and Apple-Fbi, Where Are We on Encryption?
The debate over encryption and government access to secured communications dates decades back.
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Spinoff 2017: Nasa Tech Makes a Difference on Earth
NASA has released its Spinoff 2017 publication, which takes a close look at 50 different companies that are using NASA technology—innovations developed by NASA,...
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CRISPR Heavyweights Battle in US Patent Court
It was a tough day in US patent court for the University of California, Berkeley.
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.s. Lead in Quantum Computing 'under Siege,' Says White House Cyber Adviser
The United States needs to invest more in quantum computing, according to Tim Polk, assistant director of cybersecurity within the U.S. Office of Science and Technology...
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Pizzagate: From Rumor, to Hashtag, to Gunfire in D.c.
What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden in mysterious tunnels...
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