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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Walk-Man Sets the Bar High For Darpa's Robotics Challenge Finals
An international group of researchers has developed the WALK-MAN robot to seamlessly operate in environments damaged by disasters.
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Computational Aesthetics Algorithm Spots Beauty That Humans Overlook
A team of researchers has developed a machine-vision algorithm that can identify and highlight beautiful images.
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Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man to Sip a Beer at His Own Pace
Researchers placed an implant in the posterior parietal cortex of a man paralyzed from the neck down, who then controlled a robotic arm with his mind.
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Project Exodus
On March 27th, an American astronaut named Scott Kelly blasted off from Earth and, six hours later, clambered onto the International Space Station.
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Cyborgs: Not Quite Ready For Primetime
The grinder community seeks to biohack the human race with technology implants.
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New Research Suggests Hackers Can Track Subway Riders Through Their Phones
Underground subways offer no place to hide from hackers.
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Behind the Downfall at Blackberry
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...
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Standard Knowledge for Robots
A working group of 166 experts from 23 countries has developed a global standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess.
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South African Scientists Create Cheap Computer
University of Witwatersrand researchers are leading a project to create inexpensive computers or tablets to potentially be used by every student in South Africa...
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
Jeff Dean, who helped create the fundamental computing systems that underpin Google's vast online empire, has returned to the world of neural networks.
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Boyhood
On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence traveled to Puerto Rico to take part in an unusual private conference...
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Machine Dreams
To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work.
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New Approach Trains Robots to Match Human Dexterity and Speed
In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread...
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Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.
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9 Programming Languages and the Women Who Created Them
Women have made many important and lasting contributions to software development, including the development of programming languages.
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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Microsoft’s Hololens Will Put Realistic 3D People in Your Living Room
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.
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Wolfram's Id Project Launch Touts Imageidentify Function
Wolfram Research's artificial intelligence-based Language Identification Project is equipped with an ImageIdentify function.
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Project Oxford Apis Offer Facial, Voice Recognition Capabilities
Microsoft's age-guessing site, How-Old.net, is powered by Project Oxford, which now offers tools developers can use to incorporate intelligence into their apps.
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