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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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Apple, Google, Amazon Decide to 'Play Nice' Over Smart Home Tech
Apple, Google, and Amazon are partnering to improve smart home technology.
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Trump Picks Computer Scientist to Lead NSF
U.S. President Donald Trump nominated computer scientist and Arizona State University vice president Sethuraman Panchanathan to be director of the U.S. National...
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Password Meters Could Increase Risk of Cyberattack
A study evaluating 16 popular password meters found these tools offer "inconsistent and misleading" advice that could elevate the risk of cyberattack.
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Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?
The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.
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How the Internet Spans the Globe
The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.
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Multiplication Hits the Speed Limit
A problem "around since antiquity" may have been resolved by a new algorithm.
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Don’t Trust AI Until We Build Systems That Earn Trust
Progress in artificial intelligence belies a lack of transparency that is vital for its adoption, says Gary Marcus, coauthor of "Rebooting AI"
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AI-Driven Robots Are Improving Solar Cells, Other Technologies
A new single-armed robotic system is equipped with an artificial intelligence algorithm, in order to perform materials science design tests.
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City Incentivizes Car 'Connected' Technology for Study
The Columbus, OH, City Council approved a program that will ask 1,300 residents to equip their vehicles with "connected" technology that allows them to communicate...
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Princeton Researchers Listen In on the Chemical Conversation of the Human Microbiome
New computer algorithms that can detect biosynthetic gene clusters by analyzing and interpreting metagenomic sequencing data from the tissues or excretions of human...
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Neural Network for Elderly Care Could Save Millions
Researchers have developed a risk adjustment model to predict how frenquently elderly people will seek treatment from a healthcare center or hospital.
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Recognizing Kin
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
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Twitter, Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?
Major Internet companies have come to see bitcoin technology as a potential solution to many challenges.
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Santa Claus Visits are Going Digital, from 'Elfies' to Augmented Reality
Macerich, one of the largest mall operators in the U.S., is offering "Santa HQ 5.0" at 15 of its malls across the country.
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A Self-Driving Truck Delivered Butter from California to Pennsylvania in Three Days
Startup Plus.ai has completed the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck.
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Researchers Reconstruct Spoken Words as Processed in Nonhuman Primate Brains
Researchers used a brain-computer interface to reconstruct English words from neural signals recorded in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys.
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Finland to Teach 5 Million Europeans the Basics of AI
Finland plans to teach 1% of the European Union population (more than 5 million people) basic artificial intelligence (AI) skills via a free online course.
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First 3D-Printed Neighborhood Being Built in Mexico
Social housing nonprofit New Story is using a giant three-dimensional (3D) printer to create the world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood in a rural section of Tabasco...
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Washington Must Bet Big on AI or Lose Its Global Clout
A new report says $25 billion—and a more welcoming attitude toward foreign talent—is needed to keep the U.S. in the technology race with China.
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