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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain sing Amazon's Cloud
Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.
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Nyc's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago.
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Last Call For Bad Calls
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...
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The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair
"On your marks, get set, Go!" might work to start a race on the playground but in the highest-stakes world of the Olympic games, where every thousandth of a second...
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Avalanche Science: ncovering Snow's Deadly Secrets
Dr Alec Van Herwijnen has buried microphones under the deep snow in order to listen for avalanches.
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How Airbus Is Debugging the A350
A few times a month, Airbus Flight Test Engineer Patrick du Ché stands up from his desk, takes off his jacket and tie, walks to the coat rack in the corner of his...
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Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack
It's been a long time coming, and some experts say it isn't enough.
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.
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Herding Robots
Writing a program to control a single autonomous robot navigating an uncertain environment with an erratic communication link is hard enough; write one for multiple...
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Baxter and the Second Machine Age
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.
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Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
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Can a Statistical Model Accurately Predict Olympic Medal Counts?
If someone asked you to predict the number of medals each country is going to win in this year's Olympics, you'd probably try to identify the favored athletes in...
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Edison Electrifies Scientific Computing
The U.S. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently accepted Edison, a new flagship...
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NASA's Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track
The Hubble Space Telescope is still operating, but its successor is already waiting in the wings.
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A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape.
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
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Fda Approves Pill Camera to Screen Colon
A kinder, gentler approach to one of the most dreaded exams in medicine is on the way: U.S. regulators have cleared a bite-size camera to help screen patients who...
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Attempting to Code the Human Brain
Somewhere, in a glass building several miles outside of San Francisco, a computer is imagining what a cow looks like.
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