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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
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The Art of Exoplanets
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
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Scientists Create a 'tongue' That Taste Tests Whisky
Scientists from Germany's Heidelberg University say they've created sensor arrays that, acting like a tongue, can distinguish between 30 different types of whiskys...
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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The AI Doctor Orders More Tests
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'charliecloud' Simplifies Big Data Supercomputing
An 800-line block of code helps users maintaining access to the performance and functionality of Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance supercomputers...
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
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The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned
America's top patent and trademark official has abruptly resigned from her post.
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...
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Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?
RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Gaze pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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