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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nasa Instrument on Rosetta Makes Comet Atmosphere Discovery
Data collected by NASA's Alice instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft reveal that electrons close to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov...
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Getting 'physical' and Emotional in Virtual Reality
If you think about virtual reality, you probably think of it as the place where gamers don an Oculus headset and go shoot up enemies in 3D or travel space.
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Supreme Court Overturns Conviction in Online Threats Case, Citing Intent
The Supreme Court on Monday made it harder to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook and other social media, reversing the conviction of a Pennsylvania man...
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Deep Learning Catches On in New Industries, from Fashion to Finance
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...
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Cassini Prepares For Last p-Close Look at Hyperion
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn's large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
Nicole Keplinger, 22, had long seen ads on Facebook promising financial relief, but she always ignored them and assumed that they were scams.
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A Chip Placed nder the Skin For More Precise Medicine
A new biosensor chip can simultaneously monitor the concentration of a number of molecules and certain drugs in a person.
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Mystery of Black Hole Fireworks Solved
Gigantic jets of gas that leap out of galaxies at nearly the speed of light occur only after two galaxies merge, a survey of the distant Universe shows.
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The Long Life of a Quick 'fix'
By the time a pair of engineers sat down for lunch together in Austin, the Internet's growing pains had become dire.
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Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?
Ivan Poupyrev looks like he's playing the world's smallest violin.
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Military Technology: Laser Weapons Get Real
Silently, the drone aircraft glides above the arid terrain of New Mexico—until it suddenly pivots out of control and plummets to the ground.
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Dartmouth Researchers Create First Smartphone App That Predicts Gpa
Dartmouth College researchers have developed a smartphone app that automatically predicts college students' grade point average based on their smartphone data.
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Researchers Develop Intelligent Handheld Robots
University of Bristol researchers have developed, and are studying, intelligent handheld robots.
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Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet
Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.
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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying
The speed of light, c, is an absolute physical constant.
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Atomic Telescope Brings Atoms to Standstill
One of the abiding mysteries of physics is how to make the transition between quantum and classical objects.
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How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos. Today, the technique is used...
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