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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot

Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...

The Facebook Effect: How Social Media Sways Potential Voters
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The Facebook Effect: How Social Media Sways Potential Voters

Facebook users who saw positive comments or "likes" had a more favorable perception of the candidate and were more likely to support him, while those who saw...

India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier For ­.s. Tech Companies
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India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier For ­.s. Tech Companies

American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family.

More-Flexible Machine Learning
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More-Flexible Machine Learning

Giving machine-learning systems "partial credit" during training improves image classification.

The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers

At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.

Titan Helps Unpuzzle Decades-Old Plutonium Perplexities
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Titan Helps Unpuzzle Decades-Old Plutonium Perplexities

A combination of theory, code developments, experiments, and the Titan supercomputer has proven the existence of plutonium's magnetic properties, a proof sought...

Dna-Cutting Enzymes Could Slice Through Gene Editing Patent Spat
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Dna-Cutting Enzymes Could Slice Through Gene Editing Patent Spat

Who owns the biggest biotech advance of the century?

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses
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Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique for creating dynamic patterns on graphene surfaces.

The Return of Seti
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The Return of Seti

For more than five decades, scientists of various stripes have been scanning the stars for technological civilizations, populated by thinking beings like us.

The World's Youngest Synthetic Biologists Show that the Future of Innovation Is in the Genes
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The World's Youngest Synthetic Biologists Show that the Future of Innovation Is in the Genes

At the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree this weekend in Boston—an event that its founder Randy Rettberg refers to as "the World Cup of science"—over 250 student-led...

Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current
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Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current

Researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into...

A Different Type of 2-D Semiconductor
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A Different Type of 2-D Semiconductor

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have successfully grown atomically thin 2-D sheets of organic-inorganic hybrid...

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips

At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...

Maths Whizz Solves a Master's Riddle
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Maths Whizz Solves a Master's Riddle

A mathematical puzzle that resisted solution for more than 80 years — including computerized attempts to crack it — seems to have yielded to a single mathematician...

Research Finds Automated Voice Imitation Can Fool Humans and Machines
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Research Finds Automated Voice Imitation Can Fool Humans and Machines

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that automated and human verification for voice-based user authentication systems are vulnerable to...

Learning Language By Playing Games
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Learning Language By Playing Games

MIT researchers have developed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works. The system...

Machine Unlearning: How Can Information Be 'forgotten' in the Age of Viral Data Spread?
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Machine Unlearning: How Can Information Be 'forgotten' in the Age of Viral Data Spread?

Building in mechanisms to enable computer systems to forget data when users request it was the focus of a recent paper by Columbia University researchers Yinzhi...

­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
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­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science

As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...

How Much of Your Audience Is Fake?
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How Much of Your Audience Is Fake?


Protecting Identities in a Sea of Big Data
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Protecting Identities in a Sea of Big Data

Recent studies have shown that statistics generated by genomic studies do not completely conceal their participants' identities. Xintao Wu, a computer scientist...
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