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Artificial pancreas that uses smartphone app and sensor may be diabetes game-changer

Researchers at the University Hospital of Montpellier in France have created an artificial pancreas, which could mean big things for diabetes sufferers.
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Researchers argue AI can fool the Turing test without saying a thing

Alleged criminals might not be the only ones who would benefit from pleading the Fifth.
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Clever new ‘Diet Eyeglasses’ track your eating habits by monitoring your chewing muscles

Sensor-Filled 3D-Printed Diet Eyeglasses Sense Chewing Activity By Analyzing Signal Bursts Produced By Muscle Contractions
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MIT researchers develop eye-tracking program for your smartphone

Researchers and engineers at MIT and the University of Georgia have developed a new program that uses your smartphone's camera to track eye movement.
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Equimetre is an AI-powered wearable that aims to bring horse races into the 21st century

The creators of the Equimetre are now developing a smart device – like those for human athletes – scaled up for equine.
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After watching 600 hours of TV, this AI program can predict when people will hug or high five

Turns out, shows like “The Office” and “Desperate Housewives” are worth more than their entertainment value.
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Twitter is about to optimize your images and videos with its latest acquisition

Twitter has acquired machine learning startup Magic Pony Technology to improve the resolution of live-streams and general images on its platform.
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Trust issues? Use Trooly and machine learning to figure out who you may be working with

To help you make better, more informed decisions about people you may want to work with, tech company Trooly has launched its Instant Trust rating service.
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With a little technological magic, this dad build a sorting hat straight out of Harry Potter

To get his kids interested in science, an IBM engineer built a Watson-powered sorting hat inspired by the character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Google Now on Tap to gain shortcuts to reminders, alarms, nearby places, and more

Now on Tap, Google's machine learning search service for Android, is about to get more useful with the addition of shortcuts.
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This fingerprint ID system for infants sounds scary and Orwellian, but it could save lives

Anil Jain has developed a machine learning algorithm for helping fingerprint infants -- helpful in both tracking vaccinations and providing positive IDs.
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Google sends machine learning researchers to the mountain views of Switzerland

The largest concentration of Google engineers outside the U.S. is already in Zurich, where Google Research, Europe, is opening to study machine learning.
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Project Soli isn’t in wearables yet, but these guys used it to create invisible violin

The talented folks at Design I/O have created the world's smallest violin using Google Soli and some smart machine learning.
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Can machines be creative? Meet the Google coders teaching them to make art

Can machines be creative? At the Google Cultural Institute, the coder artists in residence teach machines how to view images like humans and create art.
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Are you a terrorist, an academic, or a poker player? This startup says it can tell from your face

An Israeli startup claims its software can identify terrorists, academics, professional poker players, and pedophiles by facial features alone.
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Are automated diagnostics the future of patient care? Zebra is banking on it

Zebra announced a new collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare with hopes of accelerating the creation of Zebra's imaging analytics engine.
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Google’s newly launched Magenta Project aims to create art with artificial intelligence

Inspired by the competitive success of AlphaGo and the cultural appeal of DeepDream, Google expands its AI into the humanities with the the Magenta project
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Google's new processor fast-forwards machine learning technology

Google has detailed a specially designed chip intended for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.
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Amazon’s DSSTNE machine learning tech is now open source

Interested in machine learning? Amazon just made the platform that powers its product recommendations open-source.
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Century-old law firm Baker & Hostetler just ‘hired’ an AI attorney to help its human lawyers

One of America's biggest law firms has officially employed an AI attorney called Ross to help its human lawyers build and defend legal cases.
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Researchers built an artificial hand so agile and graceful, it’s lifelike

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an artificial hand that may be the most sophisticated yet.
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Swipe to sort: Using this robotic recycling system is like playing a game of Fruit Ninja

A startup has used gaming technology inspired by Fruit Ninja to develop a robot and software that helps waste facility workers sort through trash.
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So is Uber going to replace surge pricing or not?

An Uber engineer says the company working to remove high demand time surge pricing now. Uber states surge pricing to stay till driverless cars in use.
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Google creates a cloud-based machine learning platform that everyone can use

Google this week announced a new cloud-based Machine Learning platform that the company believes will transform the industry.
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New machine learning system can identify terrorists by their ‘V for Victory’ hand signs

If you're looking to hide, you can't do it behind a mask anymore.
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Shutterstock’s visual search engine could make browsing photos less of a chore

Stock photo agency Shutterstock has unveiled its Reverse Image Search tool that finds photos similar to any image you upload.
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Researchers develop sarcasm detector for Twitter, and that’s no joke

Researchers are learning how to detect sarcasm on Twitter
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Google and Udacity are bringing a free deep learning course to you

On Thursday, Google announced the launch of a "new Deep Learning Course developed in collaboration with Udacity."
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Yahoo just released a ton of user data in the name of academia

Yahoo just released a ton of anonymized user data in the name of academia, hoping to spur innovation in the field of machine and deep learning.

Google has open-sourced TensorFlow, their new deep-learning system

Google has decided to open source their machine learning system, TensorFlow.
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Yamaha's motorcycle-riding robot calls out Valentini Rossi to a challenge on the racetrack

Yamaha's Motobot is a motorcycle-riding humanoid robot, designed to operate motorcycles in the same way humans would so it can test new safety features.
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Microsoft teaches AI to see the funny side of things

Microsoft researchers collaborated with the New Yorker to test software capable of ranking jokes.
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Google Translate is gaining instantaneous translation support for 20 more languages

Google Translate is gaining an update that'll add 20 more languages to its instantaneous translation feature. That will make for a total of 27.
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SRI International wants machines to deal with cyberbullying so you don’t have to

SRI International is now working on computer algorithms that can identify cyberbullying as it happens, and put a much quicker end to it.