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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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You Can Help Map the Accessibility of the World
The Project Sidewalk tool uses Google Street View to rate the accessibility of Washington, DC, sidewalks for people with vision impairment or mobility issues.
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Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable—which would be a boon for future astronauts there—if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those...
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World's Tiniest Machines Win Chemistry Nobel
Three chemists who created tiny molecular machines have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their intricate designs.
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Science at Cusp of 'transformational' Grasp of Life via Cell Modeling, Researchers Say
A new paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to...
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Eu Project Successfully Deploys Robots Following Italy Earthquake
Following a huge earthquake in Italy on Aug. 24, the European Union's TRADR project deployed unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles to the region...
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At the Bleeding Edge of AI: Quantum Grocery Picking and Transfer Learning
Don't laugh, but there may come a time when quantum computers are sorting out your grocery deliveries, and if Paul Clarke, CTO of the online food store Ocado is...
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Can We Open the Black Box of Ai?
Dean Pomerleau can still remember his first tussle with the black-box problem.
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3D-Printed Robots With Shock-Absorbing Skins
Researchers have developed a new technique for three-dimensionally printing soft materials.
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Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning pgrade
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.
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Google Builds a Robotic Hive-Mind Kindergarten
How many robots does it take to open a door?
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Even with Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are...
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Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life
Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Begins Next Mars Chapter
After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA's Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill...
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...
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Researchers Make Progress Toward Computer Video Recognition
Google researchers are working to advance video-recognition technology, which Rajat Monga on Google's Brain team says is due to progress in deep-learning models...
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...
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Mission Complete: Rosetta's Journey Ends in Daring Descent to Comet
ESA's historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years.
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Building a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Power-Efficient Cloud
The European Union-funded CLOUDLIGHTNING project seeks to construct a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
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Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms
Machine-learning systems taught interesting patterns from data and documents fed into them could also pick up gender stereotypes from those sources.
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