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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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Mutual Attention Inception Network Developed for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed a novel mutual attention inception network and a remote sensing visual question answering dataset. ...
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Weather Control via Drone
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to make it rain in the desert, a first step toward controlling the weather.
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South Korea Forces Google, Apple to Allow Third-Party In-App Payments
The measures were proposed last year and faced strong resistance from Apple and Google.
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Technology to the Rescue
Updating emergency rescue equipment and tactics with digital technologies.
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Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch
Two years after its pilot launched in Logan, Australia, Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing is nearing its 100,000th customer delivery.
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Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches
The video technology, initially associated with porn, is gaining a foothold in the corporate world.
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Study Suggests Algorithm May Help Optimize Future COVID-19 Vaccine Design
Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have developed an adaptive algorithm to help optimize the design of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines.
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Turning the Tables into Touchscreens
Scientists built a touchscreen-like interface that can operate on any flat surface via a projector synchronized with a single camera.
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Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship will Make First Voyage This Year
It will transport its first container from the town of Herøya to Brevik in Norway.
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Federal Government to Expand Use of Facial Recognition Despite Growing Concerns
Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns.
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Imaging, ML Methods Speed Effort to Reduce Crops' Need for Water
New imaging and machine learning tools can analyze the genomic features of plant leaves as a means of increasing water-use efficiency for crops.
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Tool Could Help Authors Bust Writer's Block in Novel-Length Works
A new semantic frame forecast tool could help authors overcome writer's block by anticipating the future development of an ongoing novel-length story.
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U.S. Government Agencies to Increase Use of Facial Recognition Technology
A new survey shows the controversial systems are poised to play an even bigger role in federal business.
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Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
The world's most famous autonomous car shop has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones. What's taking so long?
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Non-Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A new blockchain-based technology is changing how the art world works, and changing how we think about asset ownership in the process.
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OpenAI Is Making Coding As Easy As Talking to a Smart Speaker
Plus: The early days of programming, an existential investigation, and bipartisanship before our very eyes.
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Novel Resilient State Estimation Method for Process Control in Cyber-Physical Systems
Researchers have developed a method of estimating a cyber-physical system's internal process variables when external sensors have been corrupted.
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Harvard's Eardrum-Restoring PhonoGraft Enters Commercial Development
A biomimetic hearing-restoration device developed by researchers at Harvard University has entered commercial development.
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Robot Could Operate Docking Station Inside the Gut
A new robotic insulin delivery system can be implanted surgically in the abdomen, and resupplied with insulin via swallowed magnetic capsules.
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