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Could Robots Be Counselors? Early Research Shows Positive ser Experience
Researchers have demonstrated that a humanoid social robot can deliver a positive motivational interview.
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Computer Scientists Find the Longest Straight Line You Could Sail Without Hitting Land
A new algorithm can calculate the longest straight-line path around the world on land or sea.
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Water Filter Inspired by Alan Turing Passes First Test
Researchers in China have developed a filter that removes salt from water up to three times as fast as conventional filters. The membrane has a unique nanostructure...
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Smart Skin for Flexible Monitoring
Marine Skin is a new smart patch that could be used to electronically tag marine animals.
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AI To Help Soldiers Learn Faster in Combat
A low-cost, lightweight hardware system can help soldiers learn more than 13 times faster than conventional methods.
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'Smart' Dresser Prototype Guides People With Dementia in Getting Dressed
Researchers have created an intelligent dressing system that integrates automated tracking and recognition with guided assistance.
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Editing Memories and Sensations in the Brain With Tech
What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?
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GRACE-FO: Cracking a Cold Case
Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels—as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly...
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...
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Scholar ses Algorithm to Make Christmas Tree Farming More Efficient
A Penn State University researcher has developed an algorithm to analyze and store images of Christmas tree farms taken by unmanned aircraft.
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Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?
Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...
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ACM Recognizes Innovators Who Have Shaped the Digital Revolution
Award recipients made contributions in areas including open source software, biotechnology, networks, and artificial intelligence.
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model has been unveiled after four years of development.
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Heart Is Where the Chips Are, Helping Keep the Beat
A new wireless pacemaker array opens new possibilities for medical sensors.
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There's a New Test in Town for Ranking Supercomputers
Researchers have devised a new benchmark for rating the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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Editing Brain Activity With Holography
Researchers are building equipment to project holographs into the human brain to trick it into thinking it has felt, seen, or sensed something.
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AI Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives
The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...
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Incredibly Detailed Embryo Maps Chart Each Cell's Developmental Fate
Painstaking genomic analyses of thousands of individual cells in frogs and fish have yielded the most detailed roadmaps yet charting an embryo's journey from a...
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