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South Korea Allows Autonomous Robots to Use Sidewalks
The South Korean government is allowing authorized autonomous robots to drive along the country's sidewalks.
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Scientists 3D-Print Hair Follicles in Lab-Grown Skin
A team led by scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has three-dimensionally (3D) printed hair follicles in lab-grown human skin tissue.
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Better Machine Learning Models with Quantum Computers
Researchers demonstrated improved training of machine learning models using a method that combines the best features of classical and quantum computers.
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DeepMind Accurately Forecasts Weather on a Desktop Computer
Google DeepMind developed a machine-learning weather-forecasting model that outperformed the best conventional forecasting tools.
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Hologram Lets Philippines' Marcos Speak in Singapore While Visiting U.S.
About an hour after delivering a speech in California on Wednesday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appeared in Singapore via hologram.
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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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Smart Emergency Responses to Severe Weather
A new system calculates the fastest routes for emergency services to respond to calls while factoring in traffic disruptions that may result from climate-related...
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How Quantum Computing Can Benefit Drug Discovery
Quantum computing aims to reduce cost and time.
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A Man with Parkinson's Regained the Ability to Walk, Thanks to a Spinal Implant
The implant delivers bursts of electrical signals, stimulating his spinal cord to make his leg muscles move.
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Digital Twins May Enable Personalized Health Treatment
Combining data about the human body with patients’ personal data to create digital twins of their organs could lead to personalized treatments and help avoid medical...
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Smartphone Application Increases Safety in Liver Surgery
An international team of researchers developed a smartphone application that provides a personalized risk score for patients undergoing liver surgery.
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Robot Mimics a 450-Million-Year-Old Extinct Marine Organism
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that uses insights from extinct organisms to create soft robots.
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Finding Answers (About the Best Way to Find Answers)
Computer scientists at the University of Southern California considered which knowledge graph representations are best for different applications.
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Algorithm Aids in Early Detection of Age-Related Eye Disease
A new deep learning algorithm can predict whether an individual's age-related macular degeneration will progress to geographic atrophy, which is more severe, within...
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Study Helps Explain How Selfies Are Used to Communicate
Researchers at Germany's Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences enlisted 132 people to examine 1,001 selfies and characterize their first impressions...
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Using Language to Give Robots a Better Grasp of Open-Ended World
The Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation method helps robots identify nearby objects by forming three-dimensional scenes from two-dimensional images and vision...
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Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.
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Doctors Wrestle with AI in Patient Care
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of artificial intelligence tools has raised doubts among doctors about their ability to improve patient care.
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Kids with Disabilities Are Gamers, Too
Students developed prototype assistive technologies that could enable children with cerebral palsy to play video games.
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