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AI Makes New Video Games by Watching People Play Super Mario, Kirby
A machine learning system taught itself the basics of video game design by watching videos of people playing games.
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Electric Chewing Gum Zaps Your Tongue to Create a Virtual Flavor Hit
Researchers have developed a piece of chewing gum equipped with piezoelectric elements and electrodes that stimulate taste buds as long as it is chewed.
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Smartphone With a Finger Crawls Across the Table to Stroke Your Wrist
MobiLimb is a realistic-looking mechanical finger that plugs into the USB port of a mobile device as an additional way to interact with a smartphone or tablet. ...
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This Robot Crawls Over Your Body and Scans Your Skin With a Microscope
A palm-sized bipedal robot can carry out a medical inspection of a patient when a doctor is unavailable.
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Stupid AI: How Humans Can Stop Machines From Falling for Visual Tricks
Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests new ways to prevent artificial intelligence from being visually deceived.
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AI Tries Bad Improv Comedy to Trick People Into Thinking It Is Human
Improbotics is an artificial intelligence-based comedy theater that includes a human, a puppet, and a cyborg.
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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More
A mean robot could motivate human employees to improve their cognitive performance, compared to supervision by a friendly robot or no robot supervision, researchers...
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The nderwater Drones That Hunt for Oil Spills
Researchers at the Technical University of Cartagena in Spain deployed five autonomous underwater vehicles to locate and track oil spills below the surface of the...
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Think Your Surfing Is Secret in Private Browsing Mode? Think Again
Many computer users incorrectly believe private browsing protects them against computer viruses, targeted ads, geolocation, and tracking by employers and governments...
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How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....
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4 Tweets Can Reveal the Identity of an Anonymous Troll
Four geotagged posts are sufficient to identify an anonymous account from a telephone company's database of customers.
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A Robot Has Performed Eye Surgery on Humans for the First Time
Researchers used a robot developed to can perform eye surgery on humans to help six patients who needed a membrane removed from their retina to improve their vision...
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Underwater Robot Finds Second World War Bomber Plane on Seabed
Harvey Mudd College researchers have developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle that can explore the sea floor looking for signs of wrecked ships.
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Anti-Swearing AI Takes the Edge Off Abuse on Reddit and Twitter
IBM researchers have developed a system that translates offensive comments on social media into more polite language, while keeping the content intact.
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Watch Real Football Matches in Miniature Played on Your Desk
Researchers have taught a machine learning neural network algorithm to render two-dimensional video clips posted on YouTube as three-dimensional images.
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Eye Scanner Can Tell If You've Mastered a Foreign Language
A new algorithm monitors a person's unconscious eye movements as they read, to assess their proficiency in a foreign language.
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Monkey Face Recognition App Can Help Spot Endangered Primates
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a mobile application that can identify and track primates in the wild from facial photos.
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.S. Army Makes a Virtual North Korea for Training
The U.S. Army is creating a virtual duplicate of our planet in which to drill troops.
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Making Custom Qubits by Pushing Together Two Individual Atoms
Researchers have used laser beams to manipulate a sodium atom and a caesium atom into a single, asymmetrical molecule, making it potentially useful for quantum...
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