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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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Banks se AI to Catch Rogue Traders Before the Act
Over the past few years, banks have made significant strides in trader surveillance, embracing communication monitoring tools that look for obvious flash phrases...
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Dockworkers v. Robots, Los Angeles Edition
The International Longshore & Warehouse Union is fighting a Danish firm's plan to use unmanned vehicles to move shipping containers around the Los Angeles port...
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Future Shock: Inside Google's Smart City
Google is using a 12-acre plot on the outskirts of Toronto to build a city of the future.
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Apple, Aetna Team p on New Healthcare App
Apple and U.S. insurance firm Aetna have partnered on a new Apple Watch application, through which users can access detailed health records.
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National Health Service Trials AI Software to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Several European companies have trained artificial intelligence to detect signs of breast cancer.
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Battle for Connected Home Seizes the Stage at CES 2019
Last week's CES 2019 in Las Vegas showcased efforts by Google, Amazon, and Apple to advance connected home technology platforms.
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Taiwan's Rice Farmers se Big Data to Cope With Climate Change
Taiwanese rice growers are using big data as a part of a pilot project to ensure the resilience of crop production in the face of climate change.
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How the .K. Plans to Teach Computer Science to Every Child
The Raspberry Pi startup will train 40,000 U.K. teachers to teach computer science, with the ultimate goal of teaching computer science to all U.K. schoolchildren...
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How Smartphone Apps Track sers and Share Data
Researchers analyzing about 33% of the Android apps in the Google Play Store found almost nine out of 10 track smartphone data and transmit it back to Google.
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Virtual Reality Prepares Business Students for Digital Leadership
The ESMT Berlin business school is using virtual reality to teach leadership in a digital world to executives from some of Germany’s biggest companies.
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Neural Networks Allow S to 'Read Faces' in a New Way
Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski is using deep neural networks to illustrate the use of facial-recognition technology for invasive monitoring
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Alibaba and Microsoft AI Beat Humans in Stanford Reading Test
Artificial intelligence programs from China and the U.S. last week outperformed humans in a global reading comprehension test
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Online Gaming Yields First Results For Alzheimer's Research
Stall Catchers is an online computer game in which players use to analyze movies of blood flow to the brain as part of Alzheimer's disease research.
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.
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'hackathon' Attempts to STEM Proliferation of Fake News
A hackathon inspired by the influence of fake news on the U.S. presidential election seeks to incentivize the prioritization of truth.
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S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
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Wearable Technology Finds Its Place on Campus
Several universities are experimenting with wearable technologies as a way to improve classroom instruction.
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Indonesian Techies Crowdsource Election Results
A trio of Indonesians working for international tech companies have used crowdsourcing to calculate a result for Indonesia's contested presidential election.
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How to Raise a Personable Robot
Social roboticist Heather Knight's research focuses on making robots socially expressive so they can interact with people on a more personable level.
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