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The world’s tiniest, most powerful nanoengine

Could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease

Skull echoes could become the new passwords for augmented-reality glasses

Deep neural networks that identify shapes nearly as well as humans

You’re in your self-driving car, with heavy rain and poor visibility. All of a sudden, a blurred shape appears on the road. What should the car do?

Ultrasound allows for transmitting HD video through animal tissues

Imagine a miniature remote-controlled HD video camera that streams live video from a patient’s intestines to a physician

Just 1 minute of intense exercise produces health benefits similar to 50 minutes of moderate exercise

No time to exercise? Now you have no excuse.

Public beta of toolkit for developing machine learning for robots and games released

Artificial protein controls first self-assembly of C60 fullerenes

New discovery expected to lead to new materials with properties such as higher strength, lighter weight, and greater chemical reactivity, resulting in applications ranging from medicine to energy and electronics

Do you trust robots?

What’s missing is human-factors studies, say MIT Professor Emeritus Thomas B. Sheridan

System predicts 85 percent of cyber attacks using input from human experts

Merging human and machine intelligence reduces false positives by factor of 5

Machine learning rivals human skills in cancer detection

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