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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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How Scientists se Slack
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
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Enhanced Energy: Onr Global Seeks More Powerful Electronic Devices
The U.S. Office of Naval Research Global is sponsoring research by the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the United Arab Emirates on a new nanomaterial...
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Multi-Core Processors For Mobility and Industry 4.0
Researchers have successfully demonstrated that multi-core technologies in principle could provide digital computation capacity for safety-critical applications...
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b Awarded $1.2 Million For Self-Driving Car Research
University at Buffalo researchers have received a $1.2-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a research center for self-driving and connected...
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A Wolverine Inspired Material
University of California, Riverside researchers say they have developed an ionic conductor that is transparent, mechanically stretchable, and self-healing.
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Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography
The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google...
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How Much Are You Worth to Facebook? A Free Tool Now Provides the Answer
Researchers at Spain's University of Madrid have developed a tool that can identify a Facebook user's economic value on the advertising market in real time.
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Rewriting the Code of Life
Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.
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Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble
Driving your car until it breaks down on the road is never anyone's favorite way to learn the need for routine maintenance.
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A Matter of Life or Death
More than 2.5 million people from more than 160 countries have shared their opinions about which algorithmic decisions are most ethical for a self-driving vehicle...
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Walking the Line: Wpi Students Develop App as Sobriety Test
A smartphone application in development at Massachusetts' Worcester Polytechnic Institute tells users when they have had too much alcohol by monitoring changes...
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se It or Lose It: The Search For Enlightenment in Dark Data
The growth of structured and unstructured data is proceeding exponentially, yet a recent IBM study estimated more than 80% of all data is "dark," or unmanaged and...
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New Rules For Avoiding Cyber Bugs in Medical Devices
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...
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2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
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Computer Models Find Ancient Solutions to Modern Problems
At Washington State University, archaeologists have developed computer simulations of the interactions between ancestral peoples in the American Southwest and their...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated the highest-bandgap transistor ever, a High Electron Mobility Transistor.
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
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Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
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Canadians Solve Key Puzzle For Future of Encryption
Students at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing have developed a system to transmit numerical keys that will unlock coded messages no future...
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