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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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Gaia Creates Richest Star Map of Our Galaxy - and Beyond
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen...
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Celestial 'Snow' Flies in Wondrous Rosetta Comet GIF
You'll never stand on the surface of a comet, but here's how it might look and feel.
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Heat-Seeking Cameras Could Help Keep Self-Driving Cars Safe
After Uber's fatal self-driving crash last month in Tempe, Arizona, most observers had two basic question: Why did the car not see Elaine Herzberg crossing the...
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Enigma Machine Collection Recalls Computer Science Victory
Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.
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Using Functions for Easier Programming
Functional programming languages automate many of the details underlying specific operations.
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Chips Down: China Aims to Boost Semiconductors as Trade War Looms
Now, as a trade war with the United States looms, a government decision to accelerate the development of the domestic chip industry underlines how far those goals...
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The Hunt for Explainable AI
Looking for artificial intelligence that can share the basis for its decisions.
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Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy...
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FDA moves to require patching in connected medical devices
The organization is also looking at launching a public-private safety board to provide analysis and field expertise in a range of technological and clinical subject...
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Flu Virus Finally Sequenced in Its Native Form
The genome of the flu virus has been fully sequenced in its native RNA form for the first time. Previously, all influenza genomes—as well as those of other viruses...
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Made in China 2025: Beijing's Big Ambitions from Robots to Chips
China is looking to catch up with rivals like the United States and Germany in high-end technology, making a major push with a "Made in China 2025" strategy that...
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How to Blow Up a Star
After spending three months trying to blow up a star, Hans-Thomas Janka and his team finally saw what they had been waiting for.
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Moscow State niversity Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
University teams from Beijing and Tokyo also were recognized with gold medals.
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Machine Learning's 'Amazing' Ability to Predict Chaos
Half a century ago, the pioneers of chaos theory discovered that the "butterfly effect" makes long-term prediction impossible.
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Google Offers New Way to Discover Books, Fun Way to Play With Words
Google recently launched a website to demonstrate the company's progress in semantic search.
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Who Wrote This?
The creators of malicious code could be unmasked by a machine learning de-anonymizer.
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How 'Ninja Polymers' Are Fighting Killer Superbugs
In Ridley Scott's seminal blockbuster Blade Runner, humanity has harnessed bio-engineering to create a race of replicants that look, act and sound human—but are...
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Fight for Tech Supremacy Intensifies as .S. Takes Aim at Chinese Companies
The United States undercut China's technology ambitions on Tuesday, advancing a new rule that would limit the ability of Chinese telecommunications companies to...
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Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...
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