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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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Finding 'Hot Spots' Where Compounding Environmental, Economic Risks Converge
A new computational tool can pinpoint U.S. counties prone to economic strain from switching to low-carbon energy sources from fossil fuels.
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Scientists Use Computational Modeling to Design 'Ultrastable' Materials
A new computational model may be used to predict which metal-organic framework structures will be most stable for a given application.
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Bug-Sized Robots Keep Flying After Wing Damage
Artificial muscles created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can enable insect-sized aerial robots to repair themselves following damage.
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Engineers Discover Way to Control Atomic Nuclei as 'Qubits'
MIT engineers have formulated a method of controlling the spins of atomic nuclei as quantum bits using two different-colored laser beams.
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A New Way for Quantum Computing Systems to Keep Their Cool
A wireless technique enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.
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Ingestible Sensor Could Help Doctors Pinpoint GI Difficulties
An ingestible sensor can be monitored as it travels through the digestive tract, helping doctors to diagnose gastrointestinal ailments more precisely.
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AI Model Can Detect Future Lung Cancer Risk
A new artificial intelligence tool can perform lung cancer risk assessments without the help of a radiologist.
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A Faster Way to Preserve Privacy Online
Researchers have developed a method for retrieving private information from a database that is approximately 30 times faster than comparable methods.
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Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.
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Engineers Build Battery-Free, Wireless Underwater Camera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a battery-free, wireless underwater camera.
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AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
The Composable Diffusion model can help artificial intelligence-based image generators produce more complex imagery with better comprehension.
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Researchers Discover Major Roadblock in Alleviating Network Congestion
Researchers found congestion control algorithms fail to prevent certain users from taking up all the bandwidth.
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Smart Textiles Sense How Their Users Are Moving
Researchers have fabricated smart textiles that can sense their wearer's posture and motions.
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Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight
Fireflies inspired researchers to build flying, light-emitting robots that facilitate motion tracking and communication.
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Model Helps Identify Mutations That Drive Cancer
Researchers created a probabilistic computer model that rapidly scans the genome of cancer cells to identify cancer-driving mutations.
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CRISPR-Based Map Ties Every Human Gene to Its Function
A group of researchers have published the first comprehensive functional map of genes expressed in human cells.
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Hallucinating to Better Text Translation
Scientists developed the VALHALLA machine learning method to hallucinate images of written words, and using those to help translate that text into target languages...
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Unpacking Black-Box Models
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
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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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