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Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning
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Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning

Facebook's deep-learning artificial intelligence systems have learned to recognize your friends in your photos, and Google's AI has learned to anticipate what you’ll...

Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says
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Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says

Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study published in the Information Systems Journal...

Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
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Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?

It's been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training.

How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It
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How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It

Smart watches aren't exactly models of efficiency—they require one hand to operate while the other wrist wears it. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers...

Humans and Robots of the Future
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Humans and Robots of the Future

Researchers at Innopolis University, Russia, surveyed 300 participants of the Russian Robot Olympiad to learn what children, aged 8-25, think about robots, artificial...

They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
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They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.

Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.

The Mapping Expert Behind Pokémon Go
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The Mapping Expert Behind Pokémon Go

Over the past couple of weeks, the smartphone game Pokémon Go has more than doubled Nintendo’s share price and reintroduced the Pokémon Co.’s digital monsters to...

Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On

Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...

Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances
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Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances

A new personalized image search engine called Dreambit lets a person see how he or she would look with a different hairstyle or color, in a different time period...

China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group
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China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group

China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics...

America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.
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America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.

Silicon Valley may be powered by organic kale, but when Chinese tech gurus gather at 3W, a coffee shop-slash-incubator in the Chinese capital, they want sunflower...

Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary

There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...

The ­nsung Heroes of Crispr
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The ­nsung Heroes of Crispr

When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.

Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads Cash Around
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Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads Cash Around

A yearlong digital training course for Irish high school teachers started in 2014.

Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories
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Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories

The robotic production line is churning along just fine when Kevin Jones plugs a USB stick into the control computer.

This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals

When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.

'smart' Thread Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue
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'smart' Thread Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue

Researchers have integrated nanoscale sensors, electronics, and microfluidics into threads that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic...

Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference
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Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference

Research, and getting to the eventual results of that research, can take quite a bit of time.

Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits
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Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits

Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits

DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker

Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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