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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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Smartphones May Be Our First Line of Defense Against Radiation
Smartphones could be used to detect gamma radiation.
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Willow Garage's Last Days
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.
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Smarter Caching
Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller.
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Robots with Human-Like Brains to Take on Mars Unaided
It's second nature for us to follow an airplane across the sky, or to walk around a rock we see in our path.
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Eu Project to Build Lie Detector For Social Media
Researchers are leading a European Union-funded project to classify online rumors as speculation, controversy, misinformation, or disinformation.
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Mitsubishi Develops Predictive Agent to Anticipate Drivers' Needs
Mitsubishi researchers are developing a vehicle assistant system that can anticipate driver needs when controlling car navigation systems and stereos.
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#cursing Study: 10 Lessons About How We se Swear Words on Twitter
A recent study analyzed more than 50 million tweets from about 14 million users to determine how much Twitter users curse.
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Nsa Surveillance Exposes Political Party Divisions
The debate about whether to continue the dragnet surveillance of Americans' phone records is highlighting divisions within the Democratic and Republican parties...
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The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist...
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The Six Types of Conversations on Twitter
A new report from the Pew Research Center and the Social Media Research Foundation says that Twitter conversations have distinct shapes—at least six of them with...
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Atom Circuits a Step Closer
A memory effect that is crucial in electronics has been seen for the first time in a cloud of ultracold atoms.
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Nasa's Nustar ntangles Mystery of How Stars Explode
One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...
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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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A Stretchable Highway For Light: Researchers Build the First Circuit With Stretchable Optical Interconnections
Belgian researchers have developed the first optical circuit that uses interconnections that are bendable and stretchable.
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Researchers Show High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space
A prototype array can read more information than usual from single particles of light, and can achieve much higher data rates than conventional systems.
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
For a glimpse at the future of human-robot interactions, it might be better to look at what's happening in the United States military than analyzing Her, in which...
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Visiting Mauna Kea, the World's Best Spot For Stargazing
I was recently having lunch at a lovely and only slightly overpriced cafe overlooking the Pacific in the historic resort region of Kailua-Kona on the dry side of...
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Starman
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...
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Facebook Tells the Computer Who You Love
New algorithms can correctly identify a person's spouse, fiance, or other romantic partner, based on a map of Facebook friends, with about 70-percent accuracy.
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