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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Forget Apple vs. the Fbi: Whatsapp Just Switched on Encryption For a Billion People
For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter...
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ltimate Test
It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...
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Nvidia nveils First Pascal Graphics Card, the Monstrous Tesla P100
The first full-fat GPU based on Nvidia's all-new Pascal architecture is here.
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A $2 Billion Chip to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...
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Say What You See, Facebook
When Matt King signed up for Facebook, in 2009, he had been completely blind for nearly twenty years.
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Cern Is Seeking Secrets of the niverse, or Maybe Opening the Portals of Hell
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for another run at smashing particles together to unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Million-Dollar Babies
Experts in machine learning are in high demand because large technology companies use it in many activities.
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.
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Biology Software Promises Easier Way to Program Living Cells
Synthetic biologists have created software that automates the design of DNA circuits for living cells.
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Why Microsoft Believes that AI Bots Are the Only Logical Path Forward
For Microsoft, the future of communication is bots.
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.
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Where's the Lane? Self-Driving Cars Confused By Shabby .s. Roadways
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event...
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'mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth
What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars?
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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Bitcoin Technology's Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a firm at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure, is about to give the technology behind bitcoin a big test: seeing...
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Apple Likely Can't Force Fbi to Disclose How It Got Data from Seized Iphone
The US government isn't saying whether it will divulge to Apple the method it used to access the locked iPhone seized by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
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The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech's Future
The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was a statement—not so much to professional...
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'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life
Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.
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