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Self-Driving Microscopes Discover Shortcuts to New Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are training microscopes to find new materials faster using an intuitive algorithm. ...
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Machine Learning Program for Games Inspires Development of Groundbreaking Scientific Tool
A reinforcement learning algorithm aims to speed up materials discovery by modeling material properties at the atomic and molecular scale.
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Lego to Expand Online Ambitions by Tripling Total of Software Engineers
The world's largest toymaker has long feared the digital world could erode the appeal of its bricks.
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Proposed Search Strategies Improve Computational Cost of Bicycle-Sharing Problem
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo University of Science proposed two methods for reducing the computational cost of bicycle sharing systems without impacting performance...
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Predicting Others' Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time.
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Researchers Use AI to Detect Weak Heart Pump via Patients' Apple Watch ECGs
A new artificial intelligence algorithm can identify patients with weak heart pumps based on single-lead ECG tracings from an Apple Watch.
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Automatic Audio Loggers Map the Sound of Norway
Audio recorders have reliably identified birds in Norwegian forests by their songs.
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Digital Twins Aid Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right Time
An international team of researchers has modeled digital twins of diseases, in order to improve diagnosis and treatment.
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How Millions of Russians are Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain
A tremendous surge in VPN downloads represents a challenge to Putin and his version of the Ukraine war.
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Mission to Monitor Migrating Monarchs
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a tracking system to monitor the migration of monarch butterflies to specific mountain peaks in central Mexico...
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Interactive Tools May Help People Become Big Data Journalists
Researchers say people could use interactive tools to navigate, save, and tailor online content to extract meaning from big data.
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Swarming Drones Autonomously Navigate Dense Forest, Chase Human
Researchers in China demonstrated the ability of an autonomous flying drone swarm to navigate a thick forest it had never before encountered.
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Engineers Use AI to Capture Complexity of Breaking Waves
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...
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Machine Learning Can Help Address Stigma of Substance Abuse in Developing Countries
Researchers used machine learning and anonymized data to better understand drug and alcohol abuse in developing countries.
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Comparing AI Reasoning with Human Thinking
Researchers have developed a method for comparing the reasoning of artificial intelligence software with that of human thinking, to better understand the AI's decision...
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Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out
Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.
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Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough
Researchers have created two new deep learning methods.
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Biden DHS Creates New Board to Police 'Disinformation'
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is starting a new office, the Disinformation Governance Board, that will focus on countering "misinformation" and "disinformation...
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China's Weibo Shows User Locations to Combat 'Bad Behavior'
Chinese social media application Weibo will publish users' Internet Protocol addresses on their account pages and when they post comments, in order to rein in...
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