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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Precise Quantum Cloning: Possible Pathway to Secure Communication
Researchers from The Australian National University and University of Queensland have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information.
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Computer Scientist Ross Tate Working to Tame Java 'wildcards'
Cornell University professor Ross Tate has discovered that the Java programming language, designed to be safe, is actually quite insecure.
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A New Class of Materials Could Realize Quantum Computers
Researchers at Switzerland's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne identified materials whose electronic properties could be ideal for spintronics.
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Robotic Tutors For Primary School Children
Researchers in Spain have developed an integrated computational architecture for use with software applications in schools.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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Further Clues to Fate of Mars Lander, Seen From Orbit
The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars is providing new details of the scene near the Martian equator where Europe's Schiaparelli test lander hit the surface...
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Your Dvr Didn't Take Down the Internet, Yet
Last week ended with a mid-level internet catastrophe. You may have noticed that for most of Friday popular sites like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify (and yes, WIRED)...
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Massive Cyberattack Poses Policy Dilemma, Stanford Scholar Says
Last week's cyberattack that affected several prominent websites reveals weaknesses in the Internet of Things that need to be addressed.
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New Method Reduces Amount of Training Data Needed For Facial Performance Capture System
Disney Research has developed a facial-capture system that uses a sample of actors' recordings to synthetically generate the data needed to train the system.
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Electric Motors Find New Roles in Robots, Ships, Cars, and Microgrids
About 40% of electric power generated is used to drive motors, and that figure is expected to grow.
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Turning Your Living Room Into a Wireless Charging Station
A panel could one day remotely charge smartphones, tablets, and other devices within its line of sight.
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.
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Fujitsu Eyes Architecture to Rival Quantum Computers
Fujitsu Laboratories is working with University of Toronto researchers in Japan to develop a computing architecture that addresses combinatorial optimization problems...
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Flying Drones Could Soon Recharge While Airborne With New Technology
Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated a highly efficient method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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It Ain't Me, Babe: Researchers Find Flaws In Police Facial Recognition Technology
Nearly half of American adults have been entered into law enforcement facial recognition databases, despite problems with the accuracy of the technology.
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Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars Lander
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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How Nasa Fights To Keep Our Dying Spacecraft Alive
Sometime in the next 10 or so years, the massive antennas that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network will pick up a faint, distant signal for the final time.
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