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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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China Claims World's Fastest Internet
Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000-km (1,860-mile) Internet network linking Beijing to the south.
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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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Web Browsing Data Collected in More Detail Than Previously Known
Web browsing data is being collected and sold in greater detail than previously thought, according to a report by the non-profit Irish Council for Civil Liberties...
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Making Empathy Artificial
Scientists strive to add the ability to understand what others are feeling to artificial intelligence.
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Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease
The American Heart Association is removing race as a factor in predicting heart disease from a widely used cardiac-risk algorithm.
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Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?
The two men jostling to be the country's next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other...
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Magnetic Sensors Pinpoint GPU Cryptojacking Attacks
Identifying incursions with magnetic sensors.
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Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications.
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Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission
An algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers aims to identify potential failures in simulated autonomous systems prior to their real...
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Digital Twins May Enable Personalized Health Treatment
Combining data about the human body with patients’ personal data to create digital twins of their organs could lead to personalized treatments and help avoid medical...
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Silicon Valley's Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone
San Francisco-based startup Humane is pinning its hopes on what's being billed as the first artificially intelligent device.
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Smartphone Application Increases Safety in Liver Surgery
An international team of researchers developed a smartphone application that provides a personalized risk score for patients undergoing liver surgery.
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Robot Mimics a 450-Million-Year-Old Extinct Marine Organism
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that uses insights from extinct organisms to create soft robots.
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Finding Answers (About the Best Way to Find Answers)
Computer scientists at the University of Southern California considered which knowledge graph representations are best for different applications.
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Algorithm Aids in Early Detection of Age-Related Eye Disease
A new deep learning algorithm can predict whether an individual's age-related macular degeneration will progress to geographic atrophy, which is more severe, within...
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AI Makes Mobile Networks More Efficient
A new artificial intelligence model could boost U.K. telecommunications providers' bandwidth efficiency and augment mobile networks' environmental sustainability...
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Datacenter Waste Energy to Heat Homes in 'U.K.-First' Scheme
The London scheme is the U.K.'s first large-scale project to use datacenter waste heat to power homes.
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5G-Powered Robots Clean Singapore's Rivers
Singapore-based Weston Robot is supplying uncrewed surface vessels to clean Singapore's rivers by collecting garbage and monitoring water quality.
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Doctors Wrestle with AI in Patient Care
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of artificial intelligence tools has raised doubts among doctors about their ability to improve patient care.
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