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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Smarter Kind of Crash Test Dummy
Car crash simulations are being run on a supercomputer using a combination of actual vehicle, scene, and medical data by Wake Forest University researchers.
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When Apps Talk Behind Your Back
A recent study found nearly 9% of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy.
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Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI
Although software designed to play standard board games can now dominate even the best human players, the ancient game of Go has proven a much trickier challenge...
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.
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Can’t Put Down Your Device? That's By Design
Greg Hochmuth was one of the first software engineers hired at Instagram.
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When Your Boss Is an ber Algorithm
Researchers say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.
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From AI and Data Science to Cryptography: Microsoft Researchers Offer 16 Predictions For ’16
Microsoft has released a collection of predictions from 16 leaders and leading thinkers within its Technology and Research organization.
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w Roboticists Learn to Teach Robots From Babies
Babies learn by watching and imitating what adults are doing, and robots can "learn" in much the same way, according to researchers at the University of Washington...
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Researchers Enlist Gamers to Find Something Fishy About Mathematical Models
Uppsala University researchers recently used an online game to assess how good mathematical models were at reproducing the collective motion of real fish schools...
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Zero to Expert in Eight Hours: These Robots Can Learn For Themselves
A yellow robotic arm pauses over a pile of metal cylinders, snaps a photo, then proceeds to confidently pick pieces out of the jumble.
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge niversity
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...
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Telepresence Robot For the Disabled Takes Directions from Brain Signals
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals.
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App to Improve Monitoring of Psychotic Patients' Mental State and Treatment Adherence
A new mobile app enables doctors to remotely monitor psychotic outpatients' mental states and improve their adherence to treatment plans.
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Google Tech to Help Autonomous Cars Communicate With Pedestrians
Google has been granted a patent on technology that would attempt to help its autonomous vehicles communicate their "intentions" to pedestrians.
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A Digital Agent to Manage Your Travel
A prototype digital travel agent uses machine learning and optimization techniques, among others, to develop personalized travel "trajectories."
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Online Tracking By News Organizations Is Excessive, Say Researchers
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that news organizations permit far more use of third-party tracking than the average website.
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Engineers Create Droid That Could Replace Firefighters, Soldiers, and Bomb Disposal Experts
Researchers say they have developed a humanoid robot that can operate tools and interact with its environment the same way a person would.
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Machine Learning and Big Data Know It Wasn't You Who Just Swiped Your Credit Card
Financial companies are turning to machine learning and cloud computing to deal with a flood of big data from a multitude of transactions.
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Ic Professors and Grad Students Pair Infants With Robots
Ithaca College researchers, as part of their ongoing "Tots on Bots" study, are nearing the end of their first session with five-month-old infants.
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