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Out-doctoring the Doctors
Artificial software can outperform human doctors at reading medical imaging.
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Computing Power Solves Molecular Mystery
Norwegian University of Science and Technology researchers have come up with a new technique for probing molecular behavior.
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One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon.
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Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve
The mind-reading headsets won't read minds.
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Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers
Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.
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Arizona Teachers Trained to Integrate Computer Science in Their Classrooms
Grand Canyon University recently hosted more than 80 teachers from across Arizona for a workshop on how to integrate computer science curriculums into their classrooms...
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Japanese Researchers Use AI to Identify Early-Stage Stomach Cancer With High Accuracy
Researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to identify early-stage stomach cancer with high accuracy.
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Apps Make It Easy for Domestic Abusers to Spy
Cornell University researchers have found thousands of applications enabling domestic abusers to spy on their partners.
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Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer fears intensify as self-driving car fatalities dent the driverless dream.
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There's Water on Mars! Signs of Buried Lake Tantalize Scientists
A large saltwater lake seems to lurk under ice near Mars's south pole.
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Hordes of Research Robots Could Be Hijacked for Fun and Sabotage
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...
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Using Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery
Researchers collaborated on the use of machine learning algorithms to gain new insights about the history of music.
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Toolkit for Building a Smart City Plan
The Smart Cities Council has rolled out a Web-based portal to help cities gather and organize the data they require for smart city project planning.
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The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting research teams to develop a neural interface to allow soldiers to link their brains to military...
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UO Internet Architect Honored With International Award
The Internet Society presented Steven Huter with the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award in recognition of his years of work helping to bring the Internet to more...
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Toward a Secure Electrical Grid
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have proposed a new method for protecting the electrical grid from a cyberattack.
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How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Can Find Out What Trump Told Putin
President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin hobbled U.S. intelligence agencies that would usually...
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Python has Brought Computer Programming to a Vast New Audience
And its inventor has just stepped down.
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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