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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.
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Nasa's New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target
This remote KBO was one of two identified as potential destinations and the one recommended to NASA by the New Horizons team. Although NASA has selected 2014 MU69...
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Quantum 'spookiness' Passes Toughest Test Yet
It's a bad day both for Albert Einstein and for hackers.
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Tool Makes It Easier to Evade Online Censors
A new tool could offer a way around censorship technologies enabled by repressive governments.
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Super-Intelligent Machines Spawned By Ai? Execs Aren't Worried
Technology experts at an artificial intelligence-themed event were dismissive of scenarios in which super-intelligent machines eventually surpass human intelligence...
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Electrical Circuit Made of Gel Can Repair Itself
University of Texas at Austin professor Guihua Yu and colleagues have used a new gel with a unique combination of properties to fabricate a self-healing electrical...
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The Growing Need For More Women Cybersleuths
The recent rash of online hacks highlights a mounting need for cybersecurity professionals, including women.
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Nine Real Nasa Technologies in 'the Martian'
Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia.
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New Javascript-Based Language Brings the Speed
Oslo, Norway-based developer Sindre Aarsaether sees tags and selectors as a key differentiator for Imba, a speedy JavaScript-based language for the Web.
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Washu Computer Scientist Considers Competition's Effect on Social Welfare
Sanmay Das has received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to use novel methods to model the dynamics of competing platforms in defined sectors.
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avs Learn to Fly Solo
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Robust Robotics Group want to teach unmanned aerial vehicles and other robots to think for themselves...
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Smooth Robot Movements Reduce Energy Consumption By p to 40 Percent
An optimization algorithm developed by researchers in Sweden could potentially reduce energy consumption in robot-intensive manufacturing industries by up to 40...
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Biohackers Gear p For Genome Editing
A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the most powerful molecular-biology tools to come along in decades...
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Before a Robot Takes Your Job, You'll Be Working Side By Side
That's the takeaway from a new report by Forrester Research, Inc.
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MIT Builds a 3D Printer That Can se 10 Materials at Once
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have built a three-dimensional printer capable of building objects with 10 photopolymer materials.
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Robots Learn to Make Pancakes From Wikihow Articles
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions.
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Vint Cerf: 'sometimes I'm Terrified' By the Iot
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf says he finds certain aspects of the Internet of Things particularly worrisome.
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Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...
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