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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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Data Stuffed into Diamond Cavities
Researchers at the City College of New York developed a technique that allows diamonds to be used for optical storage under cryogenic conditions.
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Epigenomics Now
Computer power helps biologists track the regulation of genetic information.
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Wayfinding Without GPS
Quantum entanglement provides a new direction in navigation.
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Multiple Data Leaks at 23andMe
Stolen genetic data leads to class action suit against the testing firm.
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Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Hanan Samet was honored with the inaugural Lifetime Impact Award from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL).
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Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
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News Group Says A.I. Chatbots Heavily Rely on News Content
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online.
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Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as Cloud Storage Solution
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...
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An Exabyte of Disk Storage at CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has exceeded the 1-exabyte threshold, amassing 1 million terabytes (TB) of disk space.
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...
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Biomedical Digital Twins
Considering the transformative possibilities of simulated models of biological phenomena and systems at multiple scales.
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The Fight to Repair
How the battle over the right to repair is tipping in favor of consumers.
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Using Psychology to Bolster Cybersecurity
Getting into the minds of attackers to protect the enterprise.
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Private Equity Recruits Data-Science Talent as Industry Tackles Machine Learning
Private equity firms integrating machine learning and data analytics into their investment processes increasingly are turning to data-science experts to interpret...
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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.
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Octopus' Complex Cells Are Key to Their High Intelligence
Researchers explored the octopus's neural makeup that defines its learning processes using automated tissue preparation and new machine learning reconstruction...
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Deep Learning for New Protein Design
Scientists at the University of Washington and Belgium's Ghent University enhanced current energy-based physical models in de novo computational protein design...
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