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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point
Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.
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America's Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be "rigged." Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in...
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Can Machines Keep S Safe from Cyber-Attack?
Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has more recently brought engineers together to tackle...
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Memories That Last
An experimental method of writing data into next-generation memory chips is more efficient and requires fewer resources than traditional means.
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Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals on Demand
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded the development of a portable on-demand biopharmaceutical production system.
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Study: Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It
New research examines how human personality traits and moods can influence information technology errors and decision-making.
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Machine Learning Researchers Team p With Chinese Botanists on Flower-Recognition Project
The Smart Flower Recognition System is designed to quickly identify any flower or plant.
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Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed By Liquid Water
New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water.
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How Tech Breakthroughs Can Shatter the Bonds of Poverty
Digital financial services can provide banking, insurance, and lending to the poor in emerging markets.
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Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data
Big data programming languages are gaining in importance because they enable the mining of massive datasets.
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Researchers, Automakers See No Quick Path to Secure Car Networks
The Automobile Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center recently published its best practices for securing vehicle computer systems.
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How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn't There
Our machines are littered with security holes, because programmers are human.
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Now You See Me: True Invisibility Cloak Impossible to Build
Strike the invisibility cloak off your wish list. They are impossible to build for human-sized objects, says a new study.
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Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays
Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful...
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Computing Study Refutes Famous Claim that 'information Is Physical'
As it turns out, information is not so physical after all.
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Nus in Quest to Create Next-Generation 'quantum Music'
High-frequency vibrations produced by cooled atoms can be translated into musical sounds audible to humans.
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Plumbing the Possibilities of 'seeing Around Corners'
Researchers are exploring the possibilities of using scattered-light technology to recreate images hidden from a human line of sight.
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First Major Database of Non-Native English
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have issued the first major database of fully annotated English sentences written by non-native English...
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Selfie Righteous: New Tool Corrects Angles and Distances in Portraits
A new tool can correct distortions in self-portrait photographs by making a subject's face appear as if it were photographed from a longer distance or a different...
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