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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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Robot Trained to Read Braille at Twice the Speed of Humans
A robotic sensor developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge and trained using machine learning algorithms can read braille about twice as fast...
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NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration named 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge.
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Mitigating Urban Climate Change
Making cities greener takes more than just planting trees.
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India's Ancient Carpet Weaving Industry Meets AI
Carpet weavers in India's Kashmir region have incorporated AI into their design process.
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Rapid 3D-Printing Technique Uses Liquid Metal
A 3D-printing technique developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers increases printing speed by using liquid metal.
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Governments Are Spying on Your Push Notifications
Companies are being compelled to turn over potentially valuable push notification metadata to authorities.
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iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send Notifications
Security researchers found that some iPhone apps are using notifications to get around Apple's privacy rules governing the collection of user data.
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Life-Saving 'Robot Medics' for Triage in High-Risk Places
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Sheffield developed an uncrewed ground vehicle outfitted with robotic arms to serve as a medic in disaster and conflict...
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Robotic Insect Moves Across Water
A robot developed by Washington State University researchers mimics insects that are supported by surface tension as they move across water.
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Blockchain Computing Simulates Early Earth
Researchers leveraged the Golem blockchain protocol to simulate a network of chemical interactions that may have played a role in the origin of life.
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Virtual Reality as Therapy
Leveraging precisely designed alternate realities as therapeutic tools.
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Using VR to Get Inside the Criminal Mind
Researchers at Australia's Edith Cowan University are using virtual reality technology to gain insights into decision-making by criminals.
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Shape-Shifting Robot Lands on Moon
A lunar robot has successfully landed on the Moon.
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AI Is Decoding the Animal Kingdom
Researchers increasingly are looking to generative AI to better understand animal languages.
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New AI Framework Can Create Images From Nothing
Blackout Diffusion generates samples comparable to current diffusion models, but require fewer computational resources.
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Robots Are Changing the World of High Jewelry
Robots increasingly are being used to automate the jewelry-making process.
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DNA Sequencing Helps Craft Database of Marine Microbes
Researchers at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology created a detailed database of marine microbe information.
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Reddit Mentions May Help Predict Changes in Cryptocurrency Value
University of California, Riverside researchers identified a connection between cryptocurrency prices and the number of Reddit posts mentioning a currency in the...
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NASA's Robotic, Self-Assembling Structures
Researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center have developed "self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials."
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