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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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IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters
In its first public demonstration, IBM tested its Project Debater computer system against two human debaters.
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Closing the Loop for Robotic Grasping
Scientists in Australia have developed a faster, more accurate way for robots to grasp objects, particularly in cluttered and changing environments.
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The Rise of DNA Data Storage
The 144 words of Robert Frost's seminal poem "The Road Not Taken" fit neatly onto a single printed page. Or in a 1-kilobyte data file.
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Daring Japanese Mission Reaches nexplored Asteroid Ryugu
After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to the asteroid Ryugu.
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China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
America is now home to the world's speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
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3D-Printed Soft Robots Can Be Controlled by Magnets
Engineers have developed small three-dimensionally printed structures whose movements can be controlled with external magnetic fields.
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A .S. Machine Recaptures the Supercomputing Crown
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin
A new variety of electronic sensor made from shape-memory polymers was modeled after whiskers.
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Faster Analysis of Medical Images
A new machine learning algorithm can register brain scans and other three-dimensional images about 1,000 times faster than previously possible using novel learning...
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Software Without Coding
"Citizen Developers" can create new applications via low-code development.
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How Deep Learning Is Making Computers Better at Guessing Your Passwords
A machine learning technique can make computers up to 24% better at guessing passwords.
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The Quest to Make Super-cold Quantum Blobs in Space
On a frigid day last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps p on the Ryugu Asteroid
Here's the mission for Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft in a nutshell: Fly to a carbon-rich asteroid between the orbits of Earth and Mars, study it for a year and a...
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Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
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You've Got Mail!
And that's not all. Email is not what it used to be.
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Why Cryptocurrencies Use So Much Energy
The electricity consumption of mining for cryptocurrencies is becoming a real concern. Here's what to do about it.
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Autonomous Vehicles: U of T Researchers Make Advances With New Algorithm
Researchers working with Uber developed an algorithm combining object detection, tracking over time, and prediction to improve maneuver planning by driverless vehicles...
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Targeting the Engine Room of the Cancer Cell
Researchers have created a computational framework to match individual tumors with drugs or drug combinations most likely to destroy them.
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