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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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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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Can the Apple Watch Enhance Student Achievement?
Pennsylvania State University researchers will test how the Apple Watch can enhance student achievement via self-regulation and learning strategy.
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Astronomers Teach Machine to 'See' Galaxies in Space
University of Hertfordshire researchers say they have taught a machine to "see" astronomical images, including the ability to distinguish between galaxies.
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The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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Nasa's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
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Microsoft Research: Making the Wearable Battery Last Longer By Lightening Its Load
Microsoft Research has developed WearDrive, technology designed to extend the life of batteries used to power fitness bands.
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How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate
NASA's New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size.
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The Social Security Number's Insecurities
In both the Anthem insurance hack and the two Office of Personnel Management hacks this year, attackers gained access to Social Security numbers, affecting 80 million...
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Unc Explores Future of Transportation
University of North Carolina researchers are working with General Motors to create data for a more reliable, safe, and less expensive autonomous car.
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Researchers Build First Working Memcomputer Prototype
Researchers say they have built the first working prototype of a memory-crunching computer (memcomputer).
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And Now, the Hopping Robot
Using three-dimensional printing, engineers at Harvard University have developed a robot that integrates rigid and soft materials and can move autonomously.
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Nasa Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is the world's best-known dwarf planet?
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations...
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Manhattan Da: Iphone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Time
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.
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IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today's most powerful chips.
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Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
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