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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Everything You Need to Know About Crispr Gene Editing's Monster Year
Muscle-bound beagles. Hornless cows. Better potatoes. Genetically modified human embryos.
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Speeding Delivery By 3D-Printing Products
Online mega-retailer Amazon appears to be exploring the use of 3D printing to get products to consumers faster.
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Sandia's Panther Predicts Movement
A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed software that will enable security data analysts to work more efficiently with big data sets.
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Ibm's Systemml Moves Forward as Apache Incubator Project
IBM announced the Apache Software Foundation's acceptance of its SystemML machine-learning algorithm translator as an Apache Incubator open source project.
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The Most Important Number in Climate Change
The furious majesty of a thunderstorm defies computer simulation.
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Smile, Frown, Grimace, and Grin--Your Facial Expression Is the Next Frontier in Big Data
Affectiva co-founder Rana el Kaliouby sees the use of computers to interpret human facial expressions as the next logical step in computer-user interaction.
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Genome Editing: 7 Facts About a Revolutionary Technology
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.
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Blood Gushes from Virtual Leg Injury to Help Train Combat Medics
If you're very squeamish, look away now.
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Strategy Based on Human Reflexes May Keep Legged Robots, Prosthetic Legs From Tripping
A new robotic leg prosthesis could help users recover their balance by using techniques based on the way human legs are controlled.
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Email Security Improving, but Far From Perfect
A new report observes that email security has improved significantly in the past two years, although widespread issues remain.
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‘outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem
Three computer scientists have solved a problem central to a dozen far-flung mathematical fields.
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No Lens? No Problem For Flatcam
Rice University researchers have developed FlatCam, a thin sensor chip with a mask that replaces lenses in a traditional camera.
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New Access to the Interior of Electronic Components
Ruhr-University Bochum researchers can access the interior of transistors by manipulating the electron gas within them via application of resonators to produce...
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Computers Can Perceive Image Curves Like Artists
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have developed a breakthrough concept in the field of computer vision using curves and lines to represent image shapes...
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Biomedical Imaging at One-Thousandth the Cost
A biomedical imaging system developed by MIT researchers could ultimately replace a $100,000 microscope with components that cost only hundreds of dollars. The...
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Silicon 2.0 Promises Superpowered Chips and Solar Cells
Silicon's limited electrical conductivity holds back computer processing speeds and the efficiency of solar panels. Ordinary silicon enhanced with certain abilities...
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Apple's Swift Ios Programming Language Could Soon Be in Data Centers
Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing.
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A Tiny Pill Monitors Vital Signs from Deep Inside the Body
After testing all the pieces of a tiny pill-size device, Albert Swiston sent it on a unique journey: through the guts of six live Yorkshire pigs.
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Leap-Second Decision Delayed By Eight Years
A leap second is gone in the blink of an eye. But a long-awaited decision on whether to ditch these occasional time insertions—which ensure that official time is...
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