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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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Nasa Suspends 2016 Launch of Insight Mission to Mars
After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy...
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Nobody Knew How Big a Deal the Cloud Would Be—they Do Now
Ten years ago, Amazon unleashed a technology that we now call, for better or for worse, cloud computing.
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Graphene Proves a Perfect Fit For Wearable Devices
Researchers have developed a method for printing inexpensive, flexible, wireless graphene communication devices directly into clothing and skin.
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Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn's Closest Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint.
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How Anyone Can Explore Mars Through Virtual Reality
Fusion, MIT, and NASA are collaborating on a VR experience that will place users on Mars long before real astronauts reach the Red Planet in the 2030s.
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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Laser Printing a Nanoscale Mona Lisa Could Revolutionize Reproduction Technology
Plasmonics technology has the potential to revolutionize laser printing, according to researchers at the Technical University of Denmark.
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Stanford Scientists Train Computer Models to Accurately Simulate Nature's Variability
Researchers have developed a way of generating "training images" that can be used to refine models of uncertainty about subterranean physical processes and structures...
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Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting data and images from the mission's final close flyby of Saturn's active moon Enceladus. Cassini passed Enceladus...
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Better Memory
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
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The rban, Infrastructural Geography of 'the Cloud'
The relationship between data to space extends beyond the network equipment, services, and mobile devices that transmit and present information to a user.
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A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...
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'plucking' Light Particles From Laser Beams Could Advance Quantum Computing
Researchers at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have devised a method of reliably "plucking" an individual particle of light out of a laser pulse.
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How Long ntil We Can Build R2-D2 and C-3po?
Creating socially intelligent, interactive robots such as those depicted in the "Star Wars" films is a challenging proposal.
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The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.
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Rocks Rich in Silica Present Puzzles For Mars Rover Team
In detective stories, as the plot thickens, an unexpected clue often delivers more questions than answers.
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Facewatch 'thief Recognition' Cctv on Trial in k Stores
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.
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Deep-Learning Algorithm Predicts Photos' Memorability at "near-Human" Levels
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can predict how memorable or forgettable a given image is almost as accurately as humans.
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'fog' Computing Harnesses Personal Devices to Speed Wireless Networks
The new nonprofit Open Fog Consortium is dedicated to creating the basic infrastructure for fog computing.
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