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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Top 10 Software Flaws Used by Crooks
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Recorded Future report that eight of the top 10 software flaws most commonly exploited last year were associated with Microsoft...
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Fusion Startups Step in to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream
Startups are trying to make clean fusion-generated electricity a reality by designing systems for squeezing atoms together.
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Improving AI's Ability to Identify Students Who Need Help
A new artificial intelligence model can predict the extent of students' absorption of knowledge via educational gameplay.
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World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Carnegie Mellon University graduate Lingdong Huang has created the first programming language based on classical Chinese.
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Automation Finds Home in Building Design
Startup Higharc iteratively creates customized three-dimensional home designs via algorithmic modeling.
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Jigsaw Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images
Jigsaw has released a free tool, designed to help journalists identify doctored photos, including those generated through the use of artificial intelligence.
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Illinois Law Gives Candidates Rights to Understand How Employers Use Algorithms to Rate Job Interviewees
A new law in Illinois aims to give job candidates a better understanding of how companies use artificial intelligence to screen video interviews.
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IBM's Debating AI Just Got a Lot Closer to Being a Useful Tool
IBM upgraded the neural networks of its Project Debater system to improve the quality of evidence the argument-mining system uncovers.
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Deepfake Software Translates Videos from One Language to Another
New software automatically translates a video of a person speaking in one language into another language, while matching their lip movements to the new words.
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Next Generation of Organ-on-Chip Has Arrived
Researchers have met the U.S. DARPA challenge to create next-generation organ-on-a-chip models.
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Tracking Shoppers
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...
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Exploring the Theory of Computing
In his new book, Avi Wigderson argues for computing’s central role in human thought.
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Finding a Good Read Among Billions of Choices
MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new text-analysis method for rapidly narrowing down reading material from billions of online options.
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Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Rules
Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program to all researchers and outlined the program's rules on its website. The maximum available bounty is $1.5 million...
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Lasers Learn to Accurately Spot Space Junk
Chinese researchers have developed a set of algorithms that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting space junk in earth's orbit.
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How Classroom Technology Is Holding Students Back
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
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Facebook Is Building An Operating System So It Can Ditch Android
Facebook is building an operating system from scratch so that its hardware is not at the mercy of Google and the Android operating system.
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Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
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