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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Gestures Improve Communication, Even With Robots
Researchers in the U.K. have found it is easier for people to understand robot avatars when they use "iconic" hand gestures together with speech.
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Tau Uses 'deep Learning' to Assist Overburdened Diagnosticians
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a range of tools to facilitate the computer-assisted diagnosis of x-rays and other medical imaging.
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How Facebook Is Helping the Blind 'see' Pictures Their Friends Share Online
Facebook on Tuesday launched Automatic Alternative Text, a tool designed to enable sight-impaired users to "see" pictures posted by friends online.
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Nvidia nveils First Pascal Graphics Card, the Monstrous Tesla P100
The first full-fat GPU based on Nvidia's all-new Pascal architecture is here.
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Say What You See, Facebook
When Matt King signed up for Facebook, in 2009, he had been completely blind for nearly twenty years.
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Robots Infiltrate Insect World to Learn Their Ways
Paris Diderot University researchers have developed a way to generate a robot cockroach's behavior automatically.
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Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs
The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars.
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Rover Takes on Steepest Slope Ever Tried on Mars
NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.
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Uci to Launch First-of-its-Kind Official E-Sports Initiative in the Fall
The University of California, Irvine is launching an official e-sports initiative this fall, which it says is the first of its kind for a public research university...
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The 'not Face' Is a Universal Part of Language, Study Suggests
Ohio State University researchers have identified a universal facial expression interpreted across many cultures as the embodiment of negative emotion.
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What Will it Take to Make A.I. Sound More Human?
Conversation fillers such as "hmm" and "uh-huh" are critical to improving communication between humans and artificial intelligence.
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Why Microsoft Believes that AI Bots Are the Only Logical Path Forward
For Microsoft, the future of communication is bots.
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.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival
A $320-million project aims to bring the textile sector into the digital era by embedding sensors and semiconductors into fabrics.
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'mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth
Researchers are working to develop a guided tour of an area of Mars in a "mixed-reality" interactive exhibit called "Destination: Mars."
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Could Alphago Bluff Its Way Through Poker?
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.
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Fooling the Machine
A growing field of research suggests artificial intelligence can easily be fooled, as it can provide correct answers without truly understanding information.
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Why Do the Feds sually Try to nlock Phones? It's Drugs, Not Terrorism
Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen...
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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