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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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Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision
Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...
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South African Scientists Create Cheap Computer
University of Witwatersrand researchers are leading a project to create inexpensive computers or tablets to potentially be used by every student in South Africa...
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
Jeff Dean, who helped create the fundamental computing systems that underpin Google's vast online empire, has returned to the world of neural networks.
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Boyhood
On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence traveled to Puerto Rico to take part in an unusual private conference...
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New Approach Trains Robots to Match Human Dexterity and Speed
In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread...
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Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.
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With One False Tweet, Computer-Based Hack Crash Led to Real Panic
A false tweet sent from a hacked account caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to lose more than $136 billion in seconds...
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New Technology Could Fundamentally Change Future Wireless Communications
A new technique that can estimate and cancel out interference from a transmission allows a radio device to simultaneously transmit and receive data on the same...
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Microsoft’s Hololens Will Put Realistic 3D People in Your Living Room
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.
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How Stargazing Became a Numbers Game
People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational...
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NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in niverse
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
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Quantum Life Spreads Entanglement Across Generations
Computer scientists have long known that evolution is an algorithmic process that has little to do with the nature of the beasts it creates.
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Your Brain's nique Response to Words Can Reveal Your Identity
Watch your language. Words mean different things to different people—so the brainwaves they provoke could be a way to identify you.
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Forging Relationships
Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
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Klaus Tschira: 1940-2015
Klaus Tschira, the entrepreneur, software pioneer, and patron and supporter of scientific research who died unexpectedly on March 31st, 2015, made numerous lasting...
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Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...
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Between the Lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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