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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Scientists on Verge of Developing Emotional Computer
Researchers plan to develop a computer agent imbued with both narrative and emotional intellect.
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Stanford's Flying, Perching Scamp Robot Can Climb Straight p Walls
A robot developed at Stanford University is the first to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing.
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From Reagan's Cyber Plan to Apple Vs. Fbi: 'everything Is p For Grabs'
The heated debate between the FBI and Apple over the encryption of the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two people who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino...
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The Data Lake Concept Is Maturing
Meeting the needs of the new era of big data analytics.
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Apple Gets Short-Term Win, But New Mysterious Fbi nlocking Method Looms
Less than 24 hours before a highly anticipated Tuesday court session where prosecutors and Apple lawyers would have squared off here in federal court, government...
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DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain
The secretive U.S. military research division DARPA has announced plans to create a device that could accelerate learning in the human brain.
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Battery-Free Wearables of the Future Could Run Off Your Footsteps
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.
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The Meaning of Alphago, the AI Program That Beat a Go Champ
The victory of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo algorithm over a champion Go player is seen as a resurgence for deep learning.
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This Trading Card Game AI Watches and Learns From You
Cryptozoic Entertainment is working to reimagine how people play video games with computer-controlled opponents.
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Mobile-Phone Health Apps Deliver Data Bounty
Last summer, physician Yvonne Chan wondered how the wildfires raging through Washington state were affecting people with asthma—for whom smoke and heat can trigger...
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Fbi May Not Need Apple to nlock San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone
The FBI may have found a way without Apple’s assistance to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Justice Department...
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tah's Online Caucus Gives Security Experts Heart Attacks
Security researchers pretty much uniformly agree that letting people vote online is a very bad idea, one that is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities that could...
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Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds Say
Driverless cars should have a fairly easy time getting the green light to operate on U.S. roadways, as long as they look and act like the vehicles people have been...
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Robot Learning Companion Offers Custom-Tailored Tutoring
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and MIT have developed a socially assistive robot that can serve as a one-to-one peer for learning in the classroom or for...
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The Fbi Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk
It's been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely ...
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In Africa, Watson's Sister Lucy Is Growing p With the Help of Ibm's Research Team
IBM Research Africa's Kenya lab is giving shape to Lucy, a technology platform aimed at finding "commercially viable solutions to the continent's grand challenges...
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Banning Words on Instagram Doesn't Help--It Makes It Worse
A new study shows Instagram's decision to ban certain words used by pro-eating disorder communities had those communities making up new, almost identical words.
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The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
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