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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It's a Good Time for Them
Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful. As usual.
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ACM Elects Yannis Ioannidis as President
Ioannidis serves on the ACM Digital Library Board, is faculty advisor of his university's ACM Student Chapter, and will chair the ACM Europe Council Working Group...
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Highest Paying Jobs with a Computer Science Degree
Computer science is a broad and rewarding field. Find out the computer science degree salary you can expect depending on your chosen career path.
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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
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Algorithm Optimally Divvies up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams
The team's work could be valuable in manufacturing and assembly plants, for sorting packages, or in any environment where humans and robots collaborate to complete...
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Philadelphia Launches Real-Time Smart City Project
The SmartCityPHL project in Philadelphia is a partnership of the city, Comcast, and US Ignite to help collect real-time data on air quality, weather, transportation...
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An Electric Connection: Homes Helping the Grid
Researchers have invented technology that could reduce strain on the national power grid by controlling residential appliances more efficiently.
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Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in California
Uber has rolled out pilot food delivery services that use autonomous vehicles in Santa Monica and West Hollywood, CA.
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NSF Program Hopes to Rev Nation's Innovation 'Engines'
A new U.S. National Science Foundation program aims to help communities outside innovation hubs create companies and well-paying jobs from local research.
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AI Powered Autonomous Cargo Ship for 500 Miles
A 749-gross-ton vessel is the first commercial cargo ship to be navigated entirely by artificial intelligence during a nearly 500-mile, 40-hour journey.
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Why Isn't New Technology Making Us More Productive?
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival, but a broad payoff across the economy has been...
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U.K. Orders Clearview AI to Delete Images Belonging to U.K. Residents
The U.S. software company brands itself as "the world's largest facial network" holding billions of face photographs from the Internet.
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U.S. Civil Rights Enforcers Warn Employers Against Biased AI
The U.S. government has warned employers that artificial intelligence technology for screening new job candidates or tracking productivity could violate civil rights...
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Zyxel Remote Execution Bug Being Exploited
Researchers found that a bug in Zyxel firewalls that could enable unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code.
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Perception-Based Nanosensor Platform Could Advance Detection of Ovarian Cancer
A multi-institutional research team analyzed spectral signatures of ovarian cancer by harnessing machine learning and the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes.
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Microchips that Mimic the Human Brain Could Make AI More Energy Efficient
Neuromorphic chips could cut the power demands of digital assistants and other devices by orders of magnitude.
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Quantum Computing May Make Ray Tracing Easier
U.S., U.K., and Portuguese researchers combined classical ray tracing algorithms with quantum computing to improve ray tracing performance as much as 190%.
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The Government's Still Mostly in the Dark on Ransomware
The government may only be made aware of one-fourth of ransomware attacks.
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FogROS Brings Robotic Cloud Computing to the Robot Operating System
ROS 2 offers a method for offloading robotic tasks to a remote server, using a cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Services.
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