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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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A Touch of Reality
The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.
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The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
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Consumers Increasingly Touch on Contactless Payments
The ability to pay touch-free during the Coronavirus pandemic is persuading more consumers and retailers to go contactless.
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Exploring 'Data Storytelling'
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
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Rethinking Public Broadband
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
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Modelling Clouds and Climate
Machine learning algorithms are showing promise at helping better simulate the effect of clouds, making climate models more accurate.
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Getting Light-based Internet Right
Wireless Internet via light could well be a job for lasers, rather than LEDs.
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Virtual Reality Meets the Office
"Virtual meeting spaces greatly expand the possibilities for online communication—and, at their best, create an environment that parallels or exceeds real world...
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How Old is Your Brain?
Machine learning can help assess the physical age of one’s brain.
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AI Shakes Up the Seismology World
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of earthquakes and other seismological events
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Here Come the Swarmbots
Switzerland's EFPL has developed inexpensive prototype bots that can be used to form, and act as, swarms.
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The Future of the Supply Chain
Experts agree supplies increasingly will be near-sourced.
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Prepare Your Meal Together with a Robot
Julie Shah and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology build robots that can learn from demonstration, understand humans, and truly collaborate.
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Can AI Detect Dyslexia?
Researchers try to fill the void of simple, inexpensive dyslexia detection tools with a game, and with handwriting analysis, both supported by artificial intelligence...
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Testing Asimov's Idea for Power From Space
Isaac Asimov's notion of capturing energy in space and beaming it to the Earth’s surface faces its first orbital testing.
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