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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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Microsoft Headset to Help Blind People Navigate Cities
Microsoft is collaborating with a British charity to develop a headset that could help the blind and the visually impaired navigate urban locations.
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Diagnostic Exhalations
Researchers say an algorithm they developed can accurately determine whether a patient is suffering from emphysema or heart failure based on their breath.
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What Is Tor? Did Police Outfox It?
European police Friday said they had figured out how to pierce an Internet privacy tool used by dissidents, journalists and online drug dealers.
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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code
Nowadays, if you start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for.
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Digital Reconstruction Restores Rare Dino Skull
Dinosaur fossils are valuable resources—yet access to them can be tricky.
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Contactless Cards Fail to Recognize Foreign Currency
A flaw in Visa's EMV-based contactless payment card system could enable hackers with Android smartphones to approve unlimited cash transactions without a PIN.
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Giving Robots a (better Than) Human Touch
A new robot can grasp an unattached USB cable and insert it into a USB port.
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New Tech Aims to Improve Communication Between Dogs and Humans
Researchers have developed a suite of technologies that can be used to enhance communication between dogs and humans.
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European Genetic Identity May Stretch Back 36,000 Years
Europeans carry a motley mix of genes from at least three ancient sources: indigenous hunter-gatherers within Europe, people from the Middle East, and northwest...
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Half of Stars Lurk Outside Galaxies
Astronomers have spotted a faint cosmic glow, unseen until now, that may come from stars that float adrift between galaxies.
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Fmri Data Reveals the Number of Parallel Processes Running in the Brain
The human brain is often described as a massively parallel computing machine. That raises an interesting question: just how parallel is it?
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A Better Way to Slice the Pie
Splitting a check, an inheritance or credit for an idea are activities of daily life that are filled with potential pitfalls.
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Graduate Student Exploring Ways to Make Riding a Motorcycle Safer Using Connected Driving Data
Researchers are studying the use of connected-vehicle technology and naturalistic driving research to reduce crashes involving motorcycles.
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Mozilla Woos Programmers With Plans for a Webdev Browser
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications.
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Animals Add a New Dimension to Human-Computer Interaction
A new conference convenes to consider Animal Human Computer Interaction.
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The New Thing in Google Flu Trends Is Traditional Data
Google is overhauling its Flu Trends service to harness more traditional medical data, which has long been used to track and predict the flu season.
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Carnegie Mellon's Inflatable Robotic Arm Inspires Design of Disney's Latest Character
When Don Hall saw a robot arm made of balloons while visiting Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute several years ago, he knew instantly that Baymax,...
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match
Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped...
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Self-Driving Car Advocates Tangle With Messy Morality
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...
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