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Nanocars Taken For a Rough Ride
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Nanocars Taken For a Rough Ride

Researchers from Rice University and North Carolina State University recently tested single-molecule cars in open air conditions.

Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library

When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...

Weak Materials Offer Strong Possibilities for Electronics
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Weak Materials Offer Strong Possibilities for Electronics

Research by UT Dallas physicists may accelerate the drive toward more advanced electronics and quantum computing.

Fast, Stretchy Circuits Could Yield New Wave of Wearable Electronics
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Fast, Stretchy Circuits Could Yield New Wave of Wearable Electronics

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has created fast, stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, which could enable a more connected, high-speed...

Schrödinger's Cat Just Got Even Weirder (and Even More Confusing)
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Schrödinger's Cat Just Got Even Weirder (and Even More Confusing)

Everyone's heard of Schrödinger's cat, and if you're not a physicist or a liar, you can probably admit that you don't really get it. Well, hold onto your hats:...

Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution
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Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution

The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...

Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
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Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says

Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...

How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry

Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.

1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility

More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...

Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand Ai's Power
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Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand Ai's Power

Last year Microsoft and Google both showed that their image-recognition algorithms had learned to best humans.

Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors
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Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors

Researchers have found a new way to dope single crystals of diamonds, a crucial process for building semiconductors and possibly more efficient electronic devices...

Juries 'could Enter Virtual Crime Scenes' Following Research
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Juries 'could Enter Virtual Crime Scenes' Following Research

Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be adapted to recreate crime scenes for juries, researchers have claimed.

Looking Beyond Conventional Networks Can Lead to Better Predictions
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Looking Beyond Conventional Networks Can Lead to Better Predictions

Research by a University of Notre Dame team suggests that current algorithms to represent networks have not truly considered the complex inter-dependencies in data...

To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf
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To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf

The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.

Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs

Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.

Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With Dna
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Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With Dna

As a boy growing up in Denmark, Eske Willerslev could not wait to leave Gentofte, his suburban hometown. As soon as he was old enough, he would strike out for the...

Inside Vicarious, the Secretive AI Startup Bringing Imagination to Computers
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Inside Vicarious, the Secretive AI Startup Bringing Imagination to Computers

Life would be pretty dull without imagination. In fact, maybe the biggest problem for computers is that they don't have any.

Gentle Strength For Robots
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Gentle Strength For Robots

A soft actuator using electrically controllable membranes could pave the way for machines that pose no danger to humans.

Peek Into the Weird and Wonderful Age of AI (yes, There's a Chatbot)
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Peek Into the Weird and Wonderful Age of AI (yes, There's a Chatbot)

On March 23, Microsoft revealed Tay, a Twitter bot trained to chat like a millennial. It worked … too well.

These Gloves Offer a Modern Twist on Sign Language
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These Gloves Offer a Modern Twist on Sign Language

For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into textand speech. Now a pair of University of Washington undergraduates...
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