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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Digital Twins Give Urban Planners Virtual Edge
Digital twins give urban planners, policymakers, resource managers, asset owners, and citizens more dynamic tools and information about their smart cities.
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DC Water Taps AI for Sewer Line Assessments
A new algorithm helps Washington, D.C., sewer pipe technicians obtain a more-accurate picture of what is happening in the network of pipes running beneath the city...
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IBM's Debating AI Just Got a Lot Closer to Being a Useful Tool
IBM upgraded the neural networks of its Project Debater system to improve the quality of evidence the argument-mining system uncovers.
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Man Diagnosed with Wuhan Coronavirus Is Being Treated Largely by a Robot
The first person diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. is being treated with the help of a robot at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, WA...
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Facebook Speeds Up AI Training by Culling the Weak
Facebook engineers have accelerated the training of artificial intelligence (AI) agents by eliminating laggards.
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Foiling IoT Hackers
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
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Scientists Unraveling Chinese Coronavirus with Unprecedented Speed, Openness
Chinese scientists freely released the genetic sequence of a coronavirus 10 days after the first reported case, to help researchers worldwide better understand...
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Using AI to Enrich Digital Maps
A new artificial intelligence model uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps.
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Clock is Ticking on Tackling Threat to Power Grid
Washington State University researchers have evaluated the threat presented by Internet-linked devices connected to the U.S. electric power grid.
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Seattle-Area Election Puts Mobile Voting to a Test
A local election in the Seattle area is serving as a test of a mobile-voting system.
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Waymo Self-Driving Minivans Take to More U.S. Roads
Alphabet's Waymo self-driving car project is expanding testing of its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans and long-haul trucks to roads in Texas and New Mexico...
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Tracking Shoppers
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...
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Dark Web's Doppelgängers Aim to Dupe Antifraud Systems
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.
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Learning to Trust Quantum Computers
They need to show us they can solve the biggest problems.
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U.S. to Ground Civilian Drone Program on Concerns Over China Tech
The U.S. Department of the Interior reportedly plans to permanently ground a civilian drone fleet, because the approximately 1,000 drones are partly sourced from...
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Study Finds AI Viable Tool to Detect Changes in Patients' Mental Health
A study found machine learning artificial intelligence is as accurate as physicians in detecting changes in clinical states from patients' speech.
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New MacArthur Fellow Takes Aim at Online Harassment, Doxing
Danielle Citron, a privacy scholar who has done pioneering work in combating hate crimes and other abuses in cyberspace, has been named a 2019 MacArthur fellow....
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Bundesliga, Amazon Want to Predict What Happens Next
Germany’s Bundesliga professional football (soccer) league is making Amazon its official technology provider, providing statistics (among other things) for the...
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Tech Start-up Develops AR Contact Lenses
Start-up Mojo Vision is developing augmented reality contact lenses to allow wearers access to the Internet in real time.
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