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Microsoft Develops AI to Help Cancer Doctors Find the Right Treatments

“There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there’s too much to …

Replicating the connection between muscles and nerves

“MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction - the vital connection where nerve meets muscle. The device, about the size of a U.S. quarter, contains a single muscle strip and a small set of motor …

Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight

“How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight and heats water to boiling temperatures, generating steam through its pores. The design, which the researchers …

Stanford-led team reveals nanoscale secrets of rechargeable batteries

“Better batteries that charge quickly and last a long time are a brass ring for engineers. But despite decades of research and innovation, a fundamental understanding of exactly how batteries work at the smallest of scales has remained elusive. In …

Toshiba’s development of low-power multi-hop wireless network technology that can operate on battery power for 10 years

“Toshiba has developed low-power multi-hop wireless network technology that can operate on battery power for over 10 years and can collect over 99.999% of data from sensors deployed over a wide area through wireless relaying. This technology makes it …

Turing learning: a metric-free approach to inferring behavior and its application to swarms

“We propose Turing Learning, a novel system identification method for inferring behavior. Turing Learning simultaneously optimizes models and classifiers. The classifiers are provided with data samples from both an agent and models under observation, and are rewarded for discriminating between …

Baidu receives approval from California DMV to test self-driving cars

“China-based internet company Baidu has received a permit to test its self-driving cars in California from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, as the race to introduce driverless automobiles accelerates. Baidu, which unveiled its autonomous vehicle in China last …

European Union pledges free Wi-Fi for all citizens by 2020

“Following the annual State of the Union Address this week, the European Commission has announced plans to bring free Wi-Fi in public spaces by 2020. “We propose today to equip every European village and every city with free wireless internet …

GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Deliver Industry’s Leading-Performance Offering of 7nm FinFET Technology

_”GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the availability of its 7nm Leading-Performance (7LP) FinFET semiconductor technology, delivering a 40 percent generational performance boost to meet the needs of applications such as premium mobile processors, cloud servers and networking infrastructure. Design kits are …

Nissan Considering Using AI to Design Cars

“Nissan Motor Co Ltd started to consider designing cars by using artificial intelligence (AI). “We have once used AI to design a car,” said Tetsurou Ueda of Nissan Research Center at a symposium that took place in Tokyo Aug 31 …