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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'instinctive' Robot Recovers From Injury Fast
Computer scientists have endowed a six-legged robot with the ability to rapidly modify its motion to cope with damage, such as the loss of a foot.
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Europa Mission to Probe Magnetic Field and Chemistry
Two powerful science investigations will help unravel the mystery of whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa might have the right conditions for life, when a new NASA...
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The nderwater Internet
In 1962, during a period of technological and political transition in the undersea-cable industry, the Keawaula cable station was built on Oahu’s west shore for...
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Supercomputer nlocks the Secrets of Plant Cells to Create More Resilient Crops
Scientists have used supercomputers to move a step closer to identifying the nanostructure of cellulose.
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Researcher Invents Fake Password Technology to Confuse Hackers
ErsatzPasswords is a security system that makes it much harder for hackers to obtain usable passwords from a leaked database.
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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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New Mathematics Could Neutralize Pathogens That Resist Antibiotics
Bacteria that make us sick are bad enough, but many of them also continually evolve in ways that help them develop resistance to common antibiotic drugs, making...
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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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Researchers Find the 'key' to Quantum Network Solution
University of York researchers have developed a protocol to achieve key-rates over dozens of kilometers at three orders of magnitude higher than ever before.
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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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Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision
Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...
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Could a Computer Predict the Next Pandemic?
In a new study, researchers used machine learning to make accurate forecasts of whether animals carry dangerous pathogens.
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Java at 20: How It Changed Programming Forever
Java synthesized sound ideas, repackaging them in a practical format that turned on a generation of coders.
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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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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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