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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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Deep Learning Model as Accurate as Radiologists Determining Age of Child Bones
Researchers have demonstrated that a deep learning convolutional network model can estimate bone age as well as human radiologists.
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Earbud Translators: Not Perfect, Still Handy
Utility is high, even though the translations may be limited.
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Could These Grain-Sized Computers sing Blockchain Networks Thwart Counterfeiters?
IBM researchers have developed granular microcomputers that could work with a blockchain electronic ledger to verify and track any product.
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Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
Thomas Metzinger had his first out-of-body experience when he was nineteen.
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CR Researchers Take p Fight Against Fake News
Researchers are developing ways to address problems in social network analysis, including dissemination of malicious misinformation.
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Atomically Thin Light-Emitting Device Opens the Possibility for 'Invisible' Displays
Engineers have built a millimeters-wide bright-light-emitting device that is fully transparent when deactivated.
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Meet the Robot That Can Mimic Human Emotion
Charles is a robot that can mimic human facial expressions.
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Computers Made From Human Cells Could Tell You When You're Sick
Researchers say they have created the world's most complex biological computer, a group of engineered cells that could be implanted into the human body.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars
Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual: The light from a galaxy had...
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The Secret Science That Rules Crowds
Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred in 2017 include incidents in an Angolan...
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Making Monitors Brighter: Researchers in Bayreuth Discover a Way to Control the Color of OLEDs
Researchers have discovered how the spatial structure of conjugated polymers can be used to control the colors of organic light-emitting diodes and increase the...
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Earwigs and the Art of Origami
Researchers have developed multifunctional origami structures that emulate the framework of an earwig's wing, and fabricated them as three-dimensional printed objects...
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Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers...
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Always Out of Balance
Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.
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Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.
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ber Robocar Kills Pedestrian, Despite Presence of Safety Driver
This is the first fatality involving a robocar under the care of a professional human minder.
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New TSA Study Presents Method to Stop Cyberattacks on GPS-Enabled Devices
A new study describes a computer algorithm that mitigates the effects of spoofed GPS attacks on electrical grids and other GPS-reliant technologies.
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New Model Reveals Forgotten Influencers and 'Sleeping Beauties' of Science
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Knowledge Lab have created a computational model to measure the spread of influential ideas across scholarship and culture...
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