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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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Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map For Voyagers' Galactic Trek
NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system.
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Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
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Coming From Automakers: Voice Control That Understands You Better
Every once in a while, just for laughs, Kevin Smith-Fagan tries to call a friend of his, Priscilla, using the voice-recognition system in his 2013 Chevrolet Volt...
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New Camera Can See Around Corners
In the last few years, single-pixel cameras have begun to revolutionize the field of imaging.
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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back
The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.
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Nasa Chooses Two Asteroid Missions Instead of a Venus Return
For the planetary science community, the day when NASA makes the final call on new Solar System exploration missions always feels bittersweet.
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Google Reveals Secret Test of AI Bot to Beat Top Go Players
A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program...
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Some Bizarre Black Holes Put On Light Shows
People think of black holes as nightmare vacuum cleaners, sucking in everything in reach, from light to stars to Matthew McConaughey in the movie Interstellar....
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Scientists Working on sing Dna For Computers
Researchers at Brock University in Canada have developed a strategy that simplifies the design of DNA circuits, which eventually could be used in a DNA computer...
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Intel Finds Moore's Law’s Next Step at 10 Nanometers
These days, forecasts about the future of Moore's Law tend to look quite gloomy. But Intel's outlook—at least for the next few years—is decidedly bright.
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Everything You Need to Know About Gene Therapy's Most Promising Year
For a few lucky patients, 2016 was the year when gene therapy turned from promises to cures.
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Can Alexa Help Solve a Murder? Police Think So—But Amazon Won't Give p Her Data.
When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Ark., one Sunday morning last November, they discovered Victor Collins's dead body in the backyard.
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Rewriting the Code of Life
Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.
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Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble
Driving your car until it breaks down on the road is never anyone's favorite way to learn the need for routine maintenance.
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2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home—like Jarvis in Iron Man.
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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