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But something changed in those last few years, an inflection point, a final push over the line from "This could work" to "Wow, this works better than anything else we've come up with!"

Microsoft now reports progress on an idea that could put even greater muscle behind the technique. A practical way to power up deep learning software even more could lead to further significant advances in the intelligence of machines.

Cancer researchers have demonstrated a method to reprogram tumour cells into benign cells in what could be a dramatic breakthrough in the fight against the disease.

With the help of PhD student Olivia Sobczyk, Star reporter Joe Hall practises inhaling oxygen with an elevated carbon dioxide load before undergoing a unique cerebrovascular test at Toronto Western Hospital. The test is being developed to check for neurological disorders.

Currently, the U.S. Navy is using a system capable of analyzing wind and wave data to track locations that could best welcome pirate attacks. The team monitoring this project noted that as far as wind and wave data is concerned, the system can easily locate pirate activity, since much of pirate operation tends to take place in smaller vessels “highly vulnerable to adverse winds and seas.” The basis is entirely environmental.

Abe Davis, an MIT graduate student who has worked with researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe to publish their findings on "the visual microphone" - an algorithm that can almost literally create sound from soundless objects.

A proposed research project at Queen Mary Hospital could allow prospective parents to undergo "affordable" DNA testing to identify hereditary health conditions in advance though genetic sequencing.

With a network of protruding wires and an electronics pack on the back, the futuristic soft helmet is in fact a tool for electrically stimulating the brain to identify and treat depression and strokes. Soon, the technology could be used by patients at home while doctors monitor them remotely.

While studying the material properties of paper as a graduate student, Theresa Dankovich, Ph.D., discovered and developed an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water. She calls it The Drinkable BookTM, and each page is impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles.

A doctor working in the Gaza strip has developed a stethoscope to rival the medical industry’s gold-standard instrument, and which costs only 30 cents to make.

A new clinical trial is set to begin in the United Kingdom using the powerful noses of dogs to detect prostate cancer in humans. While research has been done before, these are the first trials approved by Britain's National Health Service.

The possibilities of direct brain alteration are no longer the realm of dystopian novelists. A recent collaboration between researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, University of Illinois, and University of Colorado Boulder has resulted in the creation of a brain implant as small as a human hair that can alter a subject's brain chemistry via wireless remote control.

Team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.

The new treatment works by enabling other cells that lie deeper within the retina to capture light. While rod and cone cells normally detect light and convert this into an electrical signal, the ganglion and bipolar cells behind them are responsible for processing these signals and sending them to the brain. By giving these cells the ability to produce their own light-detecting pigment, they can to some extent compensate for the lost receptors, or so it seems.

Today marked the unveiling of a reprogrammable optical chip that is capable of processing photons in an infinite variety of ways. This development marks a massive step toward the realization of a quantum computer capable of wildly outperforming its most powerful classical counterparts, a technological feat that has been dreamt of for decades.

In a study undertaken at the University of Cambridge, a “mother robot” created smaller “baby robots.” She would then evaluate her offspring and, much like animals that eat their own kind, take them apart if she deemed them unfit. The ones that worked best were allowed to remain intact.

physicists have discovered a way that future batteries could charge at warp speed by leveraging quantum entanglement.