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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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AI Researchers Call For Ban on Autonomous Weapons
Technologists ask the UN to outlaw weapons that operate outside of human control.
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
DNA stores our genetic code in an elegant double helix. But some argue that this elegance is overrated.
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The 2015 Top 10 Programming Languages
Java remains at the top of IEEE Spectrum's second annual ranking of programming languages.
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Computer Security Tools for Journalists Lacking in a Post-Snowden World
Researchers studying the computer security habits of journalists across two continents found security weaknesses in their technological tools and ad-hoc workarounds...
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The Next Frontier For Artificial Intelligence? Learning Human's Common Sense
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras is dubious human-like artificial intelligence is only a decade or two away.
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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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Silicon Brains Compete at Games
The 18th Computer Olympiad had programs vying against each other in strategic game-playing.
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3D Printed Electronics Are Here, Researchers Say
Researchers have demonstrated a method for three-dimensional printing of electrical components.
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Iarpa Funds Program to Predict Next Wave of Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a program to develop a framework for coupling threat indicators with external information sources...
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Web 2.0 (and Beyond): Developing the Next Generation of Connectivity
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Network Innovations is a network established to test next-generation networking concepts.
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Vibrant Pluto Stuns Scientists
They are 5 billion kilometres from the Sun in the dim, far-flung outskirts of the Solar System, but Pluto and its large moon Charon turn out to be astonishingly...
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Siting Wind Farms More Quickly, Cheaply
Researchers say they have developed a statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques.
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Security Researchers Find a Way to Hack Cars
Security researchers plan to demonstrate a method to hack into and control vehicles at the Black Hat and Def Con hacking conferences in August.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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After 85-Year Search, Massless Particle with Promise for Next-Generation Electronics Discovered
Princeton University researchers have confirmed the existence of Weyl fermions, which could permit a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics...
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Nfl Teams Train Qbs with Vr
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
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Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering...
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