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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags
Honda must do more to track down owners of 300,000 cars with highly dangerous Takata air bag inflators and make sure they are repaired, the nation's top auto safety...
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Aviation professor expects boost in fliers for the holidays
Increases in summer airline travel could be an indicator of things to come for flying during the holiday season.
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Postdocs (Rabin and other) for this year
The Theory Group at Harvard has put out its ad for postdocs again this year. It will be our second year for the Rabin Postdoc in theoretical computer science.here...
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Introduction
Search engines are so core to our digital experience that we take them for granted. Most of us cannot remember the web without Google to… Continue reading on Query...
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'Invisible': A rousing all-round thriller in virtual reality
Here's a series that aims to break rules in every direction.
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Washington's version of Silicon Valley startup founders
The Obama administration's "18F" program to create its own version of a high-tech startup for government digital projects has foundered since its launch in 2014...
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Report: Gunmen still control metals mined for modern gadgets
Violent gunmen still menace pick-and-shovel miners in eastern Congo, a new report finds, despite years of efforts to loosen their grip by local reformers, Western...
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IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/) Continue reading on »
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Data Recycling
One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox. Continue reading on ...
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Groundbreaking review on counteracting mobile phone distraction while driving
With mobile phone use by drivers now a reality, a groundbreaking QUT review looking at the issue as a task-sharing problem has recommended further research into...
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Underwater drone to investigate sonar contacts in MH370 hunt
A ship involved with the deep-sea sonar search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is being fitted with a drone that will examine several sonar contacts of...
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Great post!
http://thenoisychannel.com/2012/03/18/facing-prosopagnosia Continue reading on »
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Software firm's glitch stops travelers from booking tickets
A technology company says it's fixed a problem that had prevented travelers from booking trips with some U.S. airlines this week.
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Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at...
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Researchers study human reaction to sharing control with driverless car
The first trials of the Venturer autonomous vehicle project, a Government backed research project, have focussed on a critical aspect in the field of autonomous...
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The End of Intellectual Property?
Some people fear the singularity. I have a more mundane concern: are we approaching the end of intellectual property? Continue reading on »
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I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…
I’m something of a hybrid between a chief scientist, engineering leader, and product leader. But I’m not particularly an IT and operations… Continue reading on...
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Typing while driving could be more safe with simple text entry technique
A combination of a head-up display and the keypad familiar to us from mobiles in the 2000s significantly improved the performance of drivers who were texting while...
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Thrilled to see Melinda Gates prioritizing her investments to focus on women in tech!
My suggestion isn’t particularly original, but I believe it bears repeating: we need to develop a more data-driven, rubric-based approach… Continue reading on ...
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