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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...

Why Companies Can't Spam You with Robo-Calls, but the Government Can
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Why Companies Can't Spam You with Robo-Calls, but the Government Can

Be ready: Your phone might soon start ringing with a few more unsolicited robo-calls.

Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
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Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits

Under a bench at Sang-Young Lee’s lab is an ordinary, somewhat beat-up ink-jet printer he has modified so that it spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy...

How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
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How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech

Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.

Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable
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Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable

You may consider yourself even-keeled, the kind of person who is unflappable when those around you are losing their cool. But all that goes out the window when...

Google's Deepmind AI to ­se 1 Million Nhs Eye Scans to Spot Diseases Earlier
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Google's Deepmind AI to ­se 1 Million Nhs Eye Scans to Spot Diseases Earlier

Google's DeepMind division has announced a partnership with the NHS's Moorfields Eye Hospital to apply machine learning to spot common eye diseases earlier.

Darpa Goes Full Tron With Its Grand Battle of the Hack Bots
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Darpa Goes Full Tron With Its Grand Battle of the Hack Bots

On a giant flat-screen TV in an old Emeryville, California warehouse, a floating orb fires red, blue, pink, and yellow beams into a honeycomb of hexagonal blocks...

Nasa Will Pay You $1.5 Million to Build the Next Rover
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Nasa Will Pay You $1.5 Million to Build the Next Rover

In June, NASA invited a small horde of robots and their makers to Massachusetts to compete for a chance to win as much as $1.5 million.

How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race
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How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race

An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity.

Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology
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Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology

European quantum physicists have done some amazing things over the past few decades: sent single photons to Earth orbit and back, created quantum bits that will...

Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law
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Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law

In the age of big data analytics, the proprietary algorithms web sites use to determine what data to display to visitors have the potential to illegally discriminate...

Trump's Secret Data Reversal
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Trump's Secret Data Reversal

Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...

Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips
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Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips

Back in 1997, Andy Grove, then chief executive officer of Intel, became one of the first corporate titans to embrace the teachings of Harvard Business School professor...

Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen
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Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen

Boris Sofman taps his phone, and the robot on the conference room table in front of him wakes up. Not in that gadget-y way, like when a laptop screen turns on,...

First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from ­S Panel
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First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from ­S Panel

CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.

Whom Are You Voting For? This Guy Can Read Your Mind.
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Whom Are You Voting For? This Guy Can Read Your Mind.

Neuroscientist Ryan McGarry swabbed a brain activity headset with saline solution and lowered it onto Brian Hazel's head, connecting circular prongs gingerly to...

'eccentric Orbits' Chronicles the Stunning Failure (and Improbable Revival) of the Iridium Satellite Phone
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'eccentric Orbits' Chronicles the Stunning Failure (and Improbable Revival) of the Iridium Satellite Phone

The business sections of bookstores overflow with guides to success—the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, for instance, has stamped his name on more than a...

System ­ses Sound to Locate Water Main Leaks
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System ­ses Sound to Locate Water Main Leaks

Researchers have developed a technique to locate water network leaks with 99.5% accuracy.

Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?

The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.

Better Research Through Video Games
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Better Research Through Video Games

On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...
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