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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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Improving Organic Transistors That Drive Flexible and Conformable Electronics
Researchers recently completed an investigation of how micro-scale wrinkling affects electrical performance in carbon-based, single-crystal semiconductors.
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Five Factors That Will Decide If Philae Wakes
Ever since the European Space Agency's Philae lander ran out of batteries on 15 November, just three days after it bounced on to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Engineers of Addiction
You can play a slot machine in Las Vegas before you've even reached baggage claim: there are tiny slots parlors in every terminal of McCarran International Airport...
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Pluto-Bound Craft Hunts For Hazardous Moons
On 11 May, a telescope aboard a NASA craft will turn and stare at Pluto—like a space-robot equivalent of a sailor watching for shoals that could take out his vessel...
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MIT Engineers Hand 'cognitive' Control to nderwater Robots
Researchers have developed a new approach to programming autonomous underwater vehicles that increases their "cognitive" capabilities.
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Great Innovative Idea: Machine Teaching
Machine teaching is machine learning turned upside down.
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Uw Mapping App Turns Art Into a Sharable Walking Route
Trace is a new app that turns a digital sketch a user draws on a smartphone screen, such as a boat or a leaf, into a walking route that can be sent to another user...
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Toward a Squishier Robot: Engineers Design Synthetic Gel That Changes Shape and Moves via Its Own Internal Energy
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a synthetic polymer gel that can utilize internally generated chemical energy to shift shapes and propel itself...
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The Void's Creator Details His Vision For nleashing Virtual Reality's Full Potential
In a 60-by-60-foot room in Salt Lake City, Ken Bretschneider is taking virtual reality experiences to another level.
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Researchers nravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in...
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Doing Natural-Language Processing With Neural Nets Without the High Cost
Galvanize's Michael Tamir and Personagraph's Daniel Hansen recently discussed how using Google's Word2Vec tool can address issues with text classification.
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Rice Engineering Students Create Real-Time 3D Radar System
An impulse-based radar for real-time three-dimensional imaging recently was awarded the top prize at Rice University's annual Engineering Design Showcase.
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17 Javascript Tools Breathing New Life Into Old Code
New JavaScript tools are helping keep obscure programming languages such as Pascal, Lisp, and Cobol alive.
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'Sentient Data' May One Day Augment Soldier Capabilities
The director of intelligence for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command recently discussed the findings of its 2015 Mad Scientist Conference.
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Human vs Machine As Top Poker Pros Take On AI
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...
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A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired Chips
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.
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Crawling Toward a Wiser Web
Carrying out and storing a crawl of the Web requires access to significant storage and computing resources, but the Common Crawl Foundation is trying to change...
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Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.
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