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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Machines Are Changing the Way Companies Talk
Economics and machine learning researchers have found artificial intelligence is making companies change how they communicate.
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Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio Waves
The Wiliot Internet of Things tag is a printable chip that harvests energy from ambient radio waves, so it requires no battery.
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First-Ever Quantum Chess Tournament Won by Amazon Researcher
Amazon researcher Aleksander Kubica won the world's first quantum chess tournament during the virtual Practical Quantum Computing (Q2B) conference.
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2020 Put Us On the Edge of a Processor Revolution
Upscaled looks back at a big year for CPUs.
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Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition...
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Apple, Google to Stop X-Mode From Collecting Location Data From Users' Phones
Apple and Google said they will bar data broker X-Mode Social from culling location information from mobile devices running their operating systems.
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Digital Transformation Is Lopsided, Even Within the Same Organization
A Harvard Business Review study of organizations found "a growing divide between teams with ready access to automation and AI tools and teams without."
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MIT Discovery Offers Promise for Nonsilicon Computer Transistors
Researchers have discovered the alloy InGaAs could potentially lead to smaller, more energy-efficient nonsilicon transistors.
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Adding AI to Education
Some fear artificial intelligence could replace teachers, but it has a long way to go.
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A Rare Pandemic Silver Lining: Mental Health Start-Ups
Using teletherapy, metrics, and matching algorithms, entrepreneurs are focusing on addressing aspects of the mental health care system that they view as broken....
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Obituary: Edmund M. Clarke, CMU Professor who Won Computer Science’s Nobel Prize Equivalent
Clarke was best known for his work in model checking, an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software.
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CIOs Expect Tech Investments to Climb in 2021
A survey of 45 information technology executives found that many expect tech investment will grow next year, crediting the Covid-19 pandemic for justifying more...
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DeepMind's AI Masters Games Without Even Being Taught the Rules
The MuZero artificial intelligence developed by Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind can master games without learning their rules beforehand.
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How We Can Be Manipulated Into Sharing Private Information Online
Researchers found online users are more likely to expose private information based on the structuring of website forms.
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VR Battlefield Technology Designed to Train Military Leaders
Purdue University innovators generated a virtual reality model of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France, using battlefield simulations designed to train future...
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Getting the Right Grip: Designing Soft, Sensitive Robotic Fingers
A three-dimensionally printed soft robotic finger features a built-in sensor with adjustable stiffness that could pave the way for more dexterous robotic handling...
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A Better Kind of Cybersecurity Strategy
Researchers contend Russia's use of North Korean IP addresses for a 2018 cyberattack underscored the need for a new cybersecurity strategy involving selective retaliation...
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The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me
In a weird way, I've known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way into my own family.
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