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Facebook Works to Speed Up MRI Scans Using AI

Oct 31, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare

Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It’s a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient’s knee, and...

First Navy Submarine Resupplied by Commercial Drone

Oct 31, 2019 | Defense

It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of this. On Oct. 10 a small quad-rotor delivery drone, of the type used for delivering packages to your door, resupplied a U.S. Navy submarine. The honor fell to the suitably named USS Hawaii (SSN 776), one of the...

Waymo Expands to Include B2B Car Parts Delivery

Oct 31, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured

Self-driving vehicle technology company Waymo has expanded its business relationship with automotive retail company AutoNation, the companies announced today. The new extension builds on the existing partnership between Waymo...

MIT Robot Self-assembles Like a Transformer

Oct 31, 2019 | Featured

When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can identify each other. These robots, called M-Blocks 2.0, have a...

New Battery Could Charge an Electric Car in 10 Minutes

Oct 31, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Featured

Forget the 10 hours it can take to charge your Tesla Model X. A new battery, created by researchers at Penn State, can complete a charge in as little as 10 minutes. Described in a report published today in Joule, the new lithium-ion battery could...