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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?
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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?

Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.

AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next
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AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next

Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...

Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways
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Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways

Innovator: Thomas Schmickl  Age: 46  Zoology professor and founder of the Artificial Life Laboratory at the University of Graz in Austria

Recognizing Correct Code
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Recognizing Correct Code

MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order...

Your Next Insurance Agent Will Be a Robot
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Your Next Insurance Agent Will Be a Robot

A robot just gave your insurance agent a pink slip. Move over Jake from State Farm. Your replacement's name is Evia, short for "expert virtual insurance agent."

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles
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Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles

Motion-planning algorithms from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab allow drones to fly in dense environments and avoid dozens of objects.

Ibm, Michigan Partner on Advanced Conversational Computing System
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Ibm, Michigan Partner on Advanced Conversational Computing System

The University of Michigan and IBM have launched a $4.5 million collaboration to develop a new class of conversational technologies that will enable people to interact...

Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now
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Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.

Microbots Individually Controlled ­sing 'mini Force Fields'
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Microbots Individually Controlled ­sing 'mini Force Fields'

Researchers are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual micro-robots operating within groups.

Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike
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Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike

No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings.

Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv
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Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv

If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit...

Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA

Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...

Automakers, Not Silicon Valley, Lead in Driverless Car Patents: Study
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Automakers, Not Silicon Valley, Lead in Driverless Car Patents: Study

Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver's seat in developing self-driving, "autonomous" cars, and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp is best positioned to...

Machines That Learn Like People
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Machines That Learn Like People

Researchers at MIT have developed a machine-learning system based on a computational model of visual representation that could make highly reliable object discriminations...

What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future

Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...

Nsf and Federal Partners Award $37m to Advance Co-Robots
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Nsf and Federal Partners Award $37m to Advance Co-Robots

The NSF — in partnership with the several U.S. government departments and agencies — has announced $37 million in new awards to spur the development and use of...

SynTouch Is Giving Robots the Ability to Feel Textures Like Humans Do
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SynTouch Is Giving Robots the Ability to Feel Textures Like Humans Do

There's just nothing like holding a new product in your hands.

How Researchers Are Turning 'star Wars' Droids Into Reality
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How Researchers Are Turning 'star Wars' Droids Into Reality

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working to make droids more science fact than science fiction.

How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports

Computers have already been trained how to write up quick summaries of sporting events after studying the box score, putting the jobs of sports journalists at risk...
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