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Verizon has devised a system of cameras, sensors, and algorithms that can track the number of times cars fail to yield to bicyclists and pedestrians at a particular intersection.
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A pending cap-and-trade bill would earmark hundreds of millions of dollars for clean energy research, as the White House takes aim at federal funding.
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The genetic testing company wants customers to do an experiment to help uncover genetic links to pain.
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New ideas in chip design look likely to keep software getting smarter.
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Mycroft’s voice-enabled assistant is embodied in the startup’s friendly looking Mark 1 gadget, but you can build it into all kinds of devices.
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An industry outsider will help Ford navigate an altered car industry and compete with the likes of Google and Uber.
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A dexterous multi-fingered robot practiced using virtual objects in a simulated world, showing how machine learning and the cloud could revolutionize manual work.
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Todd Holmdahl says that starting from behind won’t keep Microsoft from winning the race to commercialize quantum computing.
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Making machines inquisitive could improve their ability to perform important complex tasks.
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Tech companies think biology may solve a looming data storage problem.
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Tech companies think biology may solve a looming data storage problem.
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Elite players of the strategy game reveal how they would fight high-level AI bots created by DeepMind, Facebook, and other tech companies.
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Our electric supply is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack, and new technologies aim to sound the alarm earlier.
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The administration wants to weaken the “social cost of carbon†as it looks to overhaul Obama’s climate regulations.
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Startup Spirit AI says it has a solution to the growing problem of harassment in online games: a sensitive bot.
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Behind one woman’s decision to pursue a medical career at a San Francisco Internet startup.
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Training software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research.
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Banks and investors have sunk millions into the idea that blockchain programs called smart contracts can make finance and other industries more efficient.
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Chip maker Nvidia leads the race to power the machine-learning gold rush, but competition is coming from tech giants and startups.
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Zeynep Tufekci’s new book shows how social networks have empowered mass protests—but also made them more fragile.
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Chinese researchers have developed an algorithm that could help make lung cancer diagnosis less error-prone.
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China’s BYD has huge market share and the backing of Warren Buffett, but a recent drop in government subsidies is hurting sales of its electric cars.
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Big-name advertisers have begun to question whether they’ve placed too much faith—and money—in targeted advertising.
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UC Davis plant geneticist Pamela Ronald wants to create rice varieties that can survive in harsher conditions, including more frequent droughts.
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Deep Genomics aims to develop drugs by using deep learning to find patterns in genomic and medical data.
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GlaxoSmithKline says it has treated a child with Strimvelis, its gene therapy for immune deficiency.
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Robots are still learning to walk. Here’s one that runs on two legs.
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Startup OtoSense makes software that can listen for sirens or engine trouble.
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A documentary about the superhuman Go program created by Google DeepMind shows us what it’s like to be superseded by artificial intelligence.
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New algorithms are able to diagnose disease as accurately as expert physicians.
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The accelerator’s new Startup School offers a virtual way into the startup scene even if you’re not based in the Bay Area.
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Desktop Metal thinks its machines will give designers and manufacturers a practical and affordable way to print metalparts.
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Why do most patients fail to respond to the newest cures?
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The technology has been touted as a powerful diagnostic tool, but it doesn’t provide answers to everyone.
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As bleaching devastates the critical ecosystem for a second year in a row, marine scientists are getting desperate.
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An expert who is studying Bitcoin and blockchain technologies says those looking to commercialize them need to be aware of potentially dangerous technical issues.
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Blockchains are being used to trace blood diamonds, verify health records, and secure supply chains.
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As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially. Their reasoning: we just might get desperate enough to use this technology one day.
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Using smartphone data and artificial intelligence to track and interpret behavior, a Chicago startup is attempting something extraordinary: predicting and preventing relapse into drug use.
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Some scientists are thinking about what human space travelers will look like in the future. They might be extra-small and radiation-proof.
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Facebook is quietly trying to develop the most useful virtual assistant ever, in a project that illustrates the current limitations of artificial intelligence.
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Russia’s reinvention of war exploits old techniquesfor a new century. Open-source citizen investigators are fighting back.
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Russia’s reinvention of war exploits old techniquesfor a new century. Open-source citizen investigators are fighting back.
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Years of unhappy interactions with an online commenter compelled the publisher of MIT Technology Review to rethink how his site hosts conversations.
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No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
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Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful?
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Entrepreneurs are betting on apps that improve—or just replace—prescription medication.
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Trying to estimate the maximum cost of a devastating cyber event before one actually happens.
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A dexterous new robotic gripper can manipulate unfamiliar objects, and it shares what it learns with a hive mind in the cloud.
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What’s in a name? Neuralink is a lot sweeter now that a billionaire is behind it.
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