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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Heads-Up Technology Puts Data on Car Windshields at Ces
Automakers and third-party vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week are demonstrating windshield-based heads-up displays.
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Nasa to Hack Mars Rover Opportunity to Fix 'amnesia' Fault
The Mars rover Opportunity is having memory problems that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration will try to fix remotely.
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Robots Do Kitchen Duty With Cooking Video Dataset
Researchers have built a self-learning robot that was able to improve its cooking skills by watching YouTube videos.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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Energy Harvesting Extends Life of Small Devices
Capturing ambient energy can keep off-grid devices running.
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Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can't Recognize
Look at these black and yellow bars and tell me what you see.
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Predicting Superbugs' Countermoves to New Drugs
Researchers have developed software that can predict a constantly evolving infectious bacterium's countermoves to new drugs before the drug is tested on patients...
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Hacker Claims You Can Steal Fingerprints With Only a Camera
Physical access to a fingerprint may not be required to exploit fingerprint readers, according to a European hacker.
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FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality Rules in February
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday announced it will hold a vote on new net neutrality rules during its upcoming February meeting.
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How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow
If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots.
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The Space Missions and Events We're Most Looking Forward to in 2015
This year will be another exciting one for space exploration.
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Brain-Training For Baseball Robot
Researchers in Japan have developed a model of the part of the brain that is responsible for fine motor control.
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Could Sheep Solve the Problem of Poor Wi-Fi Signal in the Countryside? Animals With Digital Collars Could Act as Hotspots
A new project by Lancaster University researchers will explore equipping sheep with digital collars, placing sensors on riverbanks, and deploying rainfall monitors...
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New Form of Memory Could Advance Brain-Inspired Computers
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.
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Prying Eyes: Inside the Nsa's War on Internet Security
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication.
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Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't se It Yet
Researchers say recent breakthroughs in speech recognition and artificial intelligence will soon make gadgets dramatically better at understanding people.
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New Programming Language Automatically Coordinates Interactions Between Web Page Components
A new programming language that lets developers write Web applications as self-contained programs.
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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft...
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