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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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Putting the Data Science Into Journalism
News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify...
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Robots With a Human Touch
Empowering smart machines with tactile feedback could lead to tremendous new applications.
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Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game
Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...
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On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center's Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower
An imposingly realistic vision of the old 1 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed north tower, will begin appearing next month in a most unlikely place: the...
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Video Games Can Power p From Merely Fun to Meaningful Experiences
Pennsylvania State University researchers have found many video games can have meaningful entertainment experiences for players.
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How Robots Can Help Build Better Doctors
A team at the University of Notre Dame is developing an improved human patient simulator, a mannequin exhibiting lifelike behaviors to help train medical personnel...
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Mlb Is Supercharging Its Stats System with Radar and AI
For all the Brad Pitt-fueled hype, sabermetric analysis is still only as good as the systems that capture data from the field—who hit what to whom.
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Is Your Robot a Little Cheeky? Google May Build It That Way
Google is developing robots that have individual personalities.
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Do Girls Like Math? The Answer Matters
Although the gender imbalance in science and technology is a major issue in affluent countries such as the U.S., it is almost non-existent in many less developed...
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The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.
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Hbo's John Oliver Hits Snowden Hard on Nsa Leaks
Edward Snowden and an unlikely interviewer squared-off on HBO over the leaks that exposed the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance programs.
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Wear Your Social Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab students are making it easier for people to make connections by broadcasting their social media interests offline...
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Is 'making a Game Out of Learning' Bad For Learning?
In MIT's Education Arcade, classic game consoles line the office corridor, rafters are strung with holiday lights, and inflatable, stuffed and papier-maché creatures...
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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Virtual Reality Is Coming to Sex, Sports, and Facebook
Technologists predict virtual reality technology will evolve to the point that it will be embedded in practically all aspects of human activity.
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'virtual Nose' May Reduce Simulator Sickness in Video Games
Vertigo and nausea cased by virtual reality games potentially could be cured with the insertion of a virtual human nose in the center of the video display.
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work—and Gets Past the 'glassholes'
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.
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