Some 1.3 million men in North America each year undergo biopsies to determine whether they have prostate cancer. While these are ordered only after multiple tests indicate the possible presence of cancer, many are ultimately proven to have been ...

Opening up our effort to put deep learning to work creating safer, smarter cities, our Metropolis Software Partner Program, announced today, brings together a dozen software partners. The program offers a curated list of applications that makes it ...

Forget about robots stealing your job. Peter Stone is working on robots who can steal Ronaldo’s job. Let’s just say Stone won’t be out of work anytime soon. Citing the mantra of “good problems make good science,” Stone and other computer scientists ...

Sprawling across a fairground the size of 150 soccer fields, the Frankfurt Motor Show opens to the public today, providing one of the world’s great staging ground for new vehicle unveils and industry announcements. But despite the show’s size, it’s ...

George R.R. Martin probably has nothing to worry about — yet. But fans who have been waiting for years for a new chapter in the popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire — the basis for HBO’s Game of Thrones — saga are getting a little taste of ...

Jacques Mattheij didn’t expect to buy two tons of Lego bricks. But that’s what happened after an evening of bidding — or rather, overbidding — on bulk lots of used bricks on eBay. His plan was to resell the bricks at a profit. But he won more than ...

Flesh and blood. Bones and guts. As humans we feel nothing more viscerally — in the most literal sense — than our health. That makes this year’s gathering of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society — MICCAI 2017 — in ...

How do you safely send a human being to inspect a petroleum refinery flare stack — one that operates at hundreds of degrees and requires negotiating a high-risk vertical climb? The answer is you don’t. Yet this important work is at the heart of a ...

We’re upgrading AI for healthcare. The research team at the Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS) today received the world’s first purpose-built AI supercomputer from the all-new portfolio of NVIDIA DGX systems with Volta. CCDS was founded by ...

To the throngs of those who’ve put down their complicated digital SLR cameras in favor of easy-to-use smartphones, Ryan Stout has a message: Not so fast. Stout is the founder, CEO and lead developer of Arsenal, a six-person, Montana-based startup ...