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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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Giant Science Party
Mondo science party this weekend in DC! The USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo features 1,500 exhibits, 750 organizations, 75 stage shows, and more.
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Festival Visitors Get Virtual 3-D Tour of the niverse
As part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the Thirty Meter Telescope will present a tour of the cosmos with a portable planetarium.
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Smart Phone Game Helps Players Make Healthier Food Choices
A Georgia Tech study has shown that playing health-related video games on a mobile device can help adults learn to live more healthfully by making smart diet choices...
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Computer Beats Human at Shogi, Japanese Chess, For First Time
A computer has beaten a human at shogi, otherwise known as Japanese chess, for the first time. Shogi is more complex than western chess, offering about 10224...
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You Too Can Have a Dream Body
If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.
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Therapeutic Computer Games Target Stroke Sufferers
A therapeutic computer game developed in Ireland uses 3-D goggles to improve the brain's sense of perspective and balance in stroke sufferers. A motion-controlled...
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Goooaal! Students Scoring with Computer Science
Rowan University students are using their computer skills to help score goals on the soccer field. CS master's degree students developed Soccer Scoop, a computer...
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Researchers Say Web Searches Are Good Predictors of Success
Web searches are an indicator of the success of movies, games, and songs, according to a Yahoo! research group. Although the study found that traditional predictors...
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Should Code Be Released?
Software code can provide important insights into the results of research, but it's up to individual scientists whether their code is released---and many opt not...
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Personal Fabrication
Open source 3D printers could herald the start of a new industrial revolution.
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Linear Logic
A novel approach to computational logic is reaching maturity, opening up opening up new vistas in programming languages, proof nets, and security applications.
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Dancing Robot Swan Triggers Emotions
Researchers at Sweden's Malardalen University have created a robot in the form of a swan that can dance to the music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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Island Dreams to Become Virtual Reality
A European research project will update three-dimensional versions of Mediterranean islands automatically with current information from a range of public and private...
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Intel Touts
Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting on “WiDi,” its technology for streaming media wirelessly from...
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Disembodied Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab professor Tod Machover has spent more than a decade inventing the technology for a new opera premiering in September...
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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Museum Displays Personal Computer, Video Game Collection
The small town of Brantford, Ontario, located about an hour west of Toronto, has been been gaining a reputation, in nerd circles at least, as home to the Personal...
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Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions That Are No Less Accurate
Cognitive scientists have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. Gamers' heightened sensitivity improves a...
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