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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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Swarm Robotics Moves Forward
Drawing inspiration from nature to enable complex behaviors.
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Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies
Digital technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holograms allow museums and other institutions to preserve historical events and tell stories...
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Experimental Wearable Pops Its Top to Send Drowning Alerts
An experimental device under development by scientists at Australia's Macquarie University is designed to alert lifeguards when its wearer is drowning.
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Chip Sandwich Pushes Boundaries of Computing, Data Transmission Efficiency
Engineers have developed an ultrafast electronic/photonic chip sandwich that generates minimal heat.
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Quantum Computers Vulnerable to Eavesdropping Hackers
Allen Mi and colleagues at Yale University warn that even carefully wiping quantum computers of data would not thwart its theft by hackers.
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The World Generates So Much Data that New Unit Measurements Were Created to Keep Up
The new prefixes come at a time when scientists and industries are dealing with data that need measurements going beyond the current range.
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AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum Problem
Quantum computers, once thought to be "superior" to classical computers, increasingly are being seen as yet another accelerator for specialized problems, according...
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Hackers Strand Vanuatu's Government
A suspected cyberattack has disabled the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu's government since November 4.
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Skin-Like Electronics Could Monitor Health Continuously
Scientists are developing flexible wearable electronics that can monitor the wearer's health.
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AI Is Better at Answering Questions if You Get Another AI to Ask Them
An artificial intelligence (AI) model that makes suggestions to another AI generates results as good as if they were prompts from people.
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Bowers CIS Community Celebrates Life of Juris Hartmanis
A dozen colleagues spoke about Hartmanis' significant contributions to the field of computer science.
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A Tribute to Valérie Issarny
Valérie Issarny, a director of research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), passed away on November 12.
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Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?
Not this time, but artificial intelligence is churning out articles, illustrations, fake product reviews and even videos.
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Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any Obstacle
Scientists have enabled a low-cost and relatively small legged robot to adapt to obstacles.
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Tuvalu Turns to Metaverse as Rising Seas Threaten Existence
The Pacific island-nation of Tuvalu intends to replicate itself in the metaverse, to preserve its history and culture amid threatened submersion by rising sea levels...
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Deepfake Detector Can Spot Real/Fake Video from Blood Flow
Semiconductor giant Intel claims its FakeCatcher technology can detect whether videos are genuine or deepfakes with 96% accuracy in real time.
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2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded to International Team for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-class Supercomputers
The international team demonstrated a groundbreaking mesh refinement capability.
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Is This the Best Drone Racer in the World?
MinChan Kim, 18, is the pilot to watch when the Drone Racing League returns to NBC Sports this weekend.
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AI-Designed Invisibility Cloak Could Hide Small Communication Devices
Researchers used artificial intelligence to design an invisibility cloak to conceal antennas or small communication devices from infrared light or microwave detectors...
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