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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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What to Do Now About Tomorrow's Code-Cracking Computers
A future-proof way to encrypt sensitive data is now available. Put it to use.
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Robotized Insects May Search Collapsed Buildings for Survivors
Researchers have developed robotized insects that could be used to search for survivors in collapsed buildings.
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Economists Are Revising Their Views on Robots and Jobs
There is little evidence of a pandemic-induced surge in automation.
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The Cost of Training Machines Is Becoming a Problem
The assumption that the cost of training computers is declining with the doubling of computing power every two years does not always hold true.
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Computer Algorithms Can Test the Dodginess of Published Results
Researchers have developed a method for algorithmically gauging manipulation of published scientific results.
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Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
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A Computer Program That Learns How to Save Fuel
Artificial intelligence may one day be able to help cars use energy more efficiently.
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Bugs in the System
Bacteria could be used to improve the electronic properties of graphene.
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Shrinking the Haystack
Technologists are helping counter-terrorist forces with software that can identify locations to be searched for hideouts and weapons, or be put under surveillance...
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That
The California HealthCare Foundation offered $100,000 for an algorithm that would allow artificial intelligence to detect retinal damage due to diabetic retinopathy...
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Watch What You Say
Mu'tah University researcher Ahmad Hassanat is developing a computerized system that can analyze the shapes human lips make as they produce different sounds.
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Note to Future Self
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is working to develop a sort of cryptographic time capsule.
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Minority Languages: Cookies, Caches and Cows
The nonprofit Mozilla foundation is seeking to give more users of its open source Web browser the option of a device that speaks their language.
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Chipmaking: When Silicon Leaves the Valley
Researchers are pursuing new ways of making chips, as it grows increasingly difficult to fit more transistors onto a silicon wafer.
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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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Oh, That
The limits of Moore's Law, which states that about every two years, computer chips will become twice as fast and twice as small, may finally be in sight.
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