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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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Immigrants From the Future
Robots intrigue both designers and enthusiasts in a way that goes beyond the technology's current practical applications.
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Every Step You Take
As small cameras with the ability to identify individuals proliferate in public places and data storage prices drop, privacy issues are growing increasingly complex...
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Teaching Old Microphones New Tricks
Mobile phone software under development can be trained to identify stress in the human voice.
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Conquering Babel
In "Star Trek", a television series of the 1960s, no matter how far across the universe the Starship Enterprise traveled, any aliens it encountered would converse...
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Difference Engine: The Pc All Over Again?
What could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages, and basements. Tinkerers...
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Mapping the ncanny Valley
University of North Carolina researcher Kurt Gray and Harvard University researcher Daniel Wegner speculate that experience plays a crucial role in generating the...
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Mind-Goggling
If you think the art of mind-reading is a conjuring trick, think again. Over the past few years, the ability to connect first monkeys and then men to machines...
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Print Me a Stradivarius
The industrial revolution of the late 18th century made possible the mass production of goods, thereby creating economies of scale which changed the economy—and...
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The 24-Hour Athenian Democracy
"I'm aware of your need to stay anonymous, but I have to be able to describe the scope of this movement. Can any of you tell me where you're typing from?"
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Crossing the ncanny Valley
Developers of robots and computer-generated films face the difficult task of making their creations as human as possible without looking too human, a perceptual...
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Web Sites That se the Spoken Word Will Empower the Illiterate
A variety of advancements have been made in Internet technology in the past few years, but the Internet continues to reinforce a fundamental division between those...
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Machines That Can See
Computer vision or object recognition has progressed by leaps and bounds to the degree that machines can in some instances surpass humans. Applications being developed...12