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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Fast Look at Swift, Apple's New Programming Language
If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.
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How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...
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Theoretical Physics: Complexity on the Horizon
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".
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New Nanotech May Provide Power Storage in Cables, Clothes
A new method to transmit and store electricity in a single lightweight copper wire could lead to smaller electronic devices because it could make batteries obsolete...
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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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Simple Sewing Machine Has High-Tech Role in Future 'soft' Machines
Purdue University researchers have altered a standard sewing machine so it can create ultra-stretchable interconnects out of conventional wire.
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360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift
Step into the silver screen with movies shot using the Panopticam.
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Tweets and Machine Learning Reveal Surprising Patterns of Happiness
Determining life satisfaction by geography, based on tweets.
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Wearable Submarine to Hunt for 2000-Year-Old Computer
The world's most advanced robotic diving suit is getting ready to help search for one of the world's oldest computers.
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New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Four experts at Applied Research Associates discuss the augmented reality system they created for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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'beam Me Up, Data'
Researchers say they have succeeded in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips.
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds.
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How to Make Robots Seem Less Creepy
Recent research has shown the "uncanny valley" hypothesis for human-robot interaction is overstated.
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