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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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The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All pgrade Our Brains
In a decade, cognitive enhancement may have gone mainstream.
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding
A national education movement with an emphasis on computer science is growing quickly in the U.S.
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Tau Researchers Develop a Smarter Smartphone Camera
Researchers say they have developed a smartphone camera that bridges the gap between the cellphone camera and the digital still camera.
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The Virtual Keyboard Can Soon Be a Reality
Malardalen University researchers are developing virtual technology that could serve as an accessory for Google Glass.
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Janusz Holyst—how Technology Can Influence People's Emotions
In an interview, Cyberemotions project coordinator Janusz Holyst discusses the potential implications of using emotions on the Internet.
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Math Makes Mobile Maps Meaningful
Researchers say a new method will ensure mathematically optimal adaptation of the labeling to the perspective and driving direction on digital maps.
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New Tool Eases the Burden of Creating and Reproducing Analytical Performance Models
Researchers say the Performance and Architecture Lab Modeling system simplifies the construction of a model by automating common modeling tasks.
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
New high-tech, affordable manufacturing tools and new sources of funding are helping launch a generation of entrepreneurs and laying the basis for a hardware renaissance...
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An Intelligent Vehicle That Can Detect Pedestrians at Nighttime
Researchers have developed a pedestrian detection system for cars that works in low visibility conditions by capturing body heat with infrared cameras.
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How George Washington niversity Is Shaping a Piece of Google's Smartphone Future
In the labs of George Washington University, students are laboring in labs covered in black-and-white dotted paper, puzzling out how to make a machine that understands...
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Terahertz Imaging on the Cheap
Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications—from explosives detection to collision...
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building...
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Augmented Reality Gains Traction For Training
Training is one of the original applications of the technology.
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The Plug-and-Play Luxury Home
When it is completed in early 2018, Muse, a 49-story luxury-condo development in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will have an automated parking system with push-button...
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National Day of Civic Hacking Widens Reach in Second Year
The National Day of Civic Hacking this year will broaden its scope to 79 international cities and 98 civic hacking events from May 31 to June 1.
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Self-Assembly Required: One Scientist's Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots
The term "cancer killing nanorobot" could conjure up all sorts of images, the best involving teeny tiny laser eyebeams.
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Researchers Try New 'twist' on Smartwatches
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a prototype smartwatch that can be controlled by the wearer's hand gestures, or by clicking its face.
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Meet the Fed's First Line of Defense Against Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Federal Reserve's first line of defense against cyberattacks is a group of employees who sift through its networks daily looking for indications of hacking...
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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