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Google DeepMind's New AI Matches Gold Medal Performance in Math Olympics
AlphaGeometry incorporates a rule-bound logical model that attempts to find an answer, and a large language model to generate out-of-the-box ideas.
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Building the Blockchain to End All Blockchains
Despite the potential benefits of blockchain technology, it needs to overcome challenges in scalability, speed, and flexibility.
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Chinese Students Are Storming .s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...
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Robots Guarding U.S. Nuclear Stockpile
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently announced that it has started using autonomous robot vehicles to patrol the vast desert surrounding...
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Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik
Be warned my fellow humans, robots will not be satisfied until they defeat us in even the most trivial of contests. Cube Stormer is the latest creation from Mike...
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Reading Your Mind to Tag Images (and Work With Computers)
Studies done at Microsoft Research are using electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements to read users' minds in order to help tag online images. The researchers...
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Photoelastictouch Combines 3D Shapes With Touchscreens
Researchers at the University of Electro-communications and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed a touchscreen interface that features three-dimensional...
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Skiing Robot Navigates Slalom Courses
Bojan Nemec from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia recently presented his skiing robot at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems...
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The Wireless Future of Energy Transfer
The electronic revolution of the past century has been a tangled affair. Remember when phones were always wired into the wall? When the Internet required one more...
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