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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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Turning Faces Into Thermostats: Autonomous HVAC System Could Provide More Comfort With Less Energy
The Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat provides more personalized indoor climate control while eliminating the need for wall-mounted thermostats.
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Digitize Your Dog Into a Computer Game
Researchers have digitized the movements of 14 dog breeds.
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The Quantum Threat
Cryptographers are developing algorithms to ensure security in a world of quantum computing.
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DGCA Nod Clears Runway for the Dawn of Drone Age
India's Directorate-General of Civil Aviation is permitting 13 companies to test fly beyond visual line of sigh (BVLOS) drones.
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Norway Pulls Its Coronavirus Contact Tracing App After Privacy Watchdog's Warning
Norway has suspended use of a coronavirus contact tracing application to allow changes to be made.
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Researchers Model the Health Benefits of Electric Cars, Find 'Large Improvement in Air Quality'
Researchers in Canada created computer simulations of the potential human health benefits of a large-scale transition to electric cars.
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Exit From the Covid-19 Lockdown: There's an App for That
The Dutch government wants every citizen to download an app for tracking and tracing potential Covid-19 infections, but the app does not yet exist.
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Coronavirus Makes AR's Potential a Reality for Chip Makers
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred the everyday use of augmented reality in semiconductor manufacturing and other industries.
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Amazon Pauses Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
The company said it hoped the moratorium "might give Congress enough time to put in place appropriate rules" for the technology.
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People with Damaged Knees, Hips Could Be Treated with 3D-Printed Artificial Cartilage
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) scientists three-dimensionally (3D)-printed artificial cartilage.
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IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM's CEO says we should reevaluate selling the technology to law enforcement.
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'Artificial Chemist' Combines AI, Robotics to Conduct Autonomous R&D
A new technology combines artificial intelligence with robotics for conducting chemical reactions, to expedite R&D and synthesis of materials.
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Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Pictures
A new tool allows anyone to render mathematical abstractions as illustrations.
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Algorithm Quickly Simulates Roll of Loaded Dice
Researchers have created an algorithm to produce random numbers with the best mix of speed, accuracy, and low memory currently available.
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Gap Rushes in More Robots to Warehouses to Solve Virus Disruption
Gap Inc. is deploying warehouse robots more quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Scanning the Skies for Danger
Finding dangerous asteroids by reverse-engineering their orbits.
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Smartphone App to Help Assess Anemia by Taking Picture of a Person's Eyelid
New software allows medical staff to obtain a patient’s hemoglobin count in real time by capturing an image of the patient's inner eyelid with a smartphone.
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Fashion Turns to Technology to Tailor Sustainable Solutions
The fashion industry is seeking technological solutions to the growing problem of unwanted textiles through tailored apparel.
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Coding for Covid-19: Contest Calls on Developers to Help Fight the Pandemic
One track in this year's IBM Call for Code challenge focused on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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