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Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot By Playing Grand Theft Auto
Several research groups are using the "Grand Theft Auto" video game to educate algorithms with potential application to self-driving vehicle navigation.
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What Robots Can Learn From Babies
New software can predict how objects captured by a computing device's camera will most likely behave.
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High-Speed Video Footage Solves One of the Great Mysteries of Human Blood Flow
Red blood cells are flexible biconcave discs that spend their lives suspended in blood plasma.
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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals By Studying Their Instagram Photos
Researchers have trained a machine-learning algorithm to spot warning signs for depression on Instagram by analyzing the composition of posted images.
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Arm Wrestles Its Way Into Supercomputing
The designer of the chips that run most of the world's mobile devices has announced its first dedicated processor for use in supercomputers.
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Internet Voting Leaves Out a Cornerstone of Democracy: The Secret Ballot
Internet voting invalidates the secrecy of ballots, according to a report from Verified Voting.
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These States Are at the Greatest Risk of Having Their Voting Process Hacked
Not everything belongs on the Internet, and the American electoral process is a textbook example. But 31 states don't see it that way.
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New Brain-Mapping Technique Captures Every Connection Between Neurons
The human brain is among the universe’s greatest remaining uncharted territories. And as with any mysterious land, the secret to understanding it begins with a...
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This Supercomputer Will Try to Find Intelligence on Reddit
Is it possible that the secret to building machine intelligence lies in spending endless hours reading Reddit?
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The Robot You Want Most Is Far From Reality
House-cleaning robots will surely be popular, but building one will be a daunting challenge, according to researchers.
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Data Mining Reveals First Evidence That Absence Really Does Make the Heart Grow Fonder
A project to data-mine mobile phone records found people invest more in relationships where there exists a risk of the relationship weakening.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Machine Vision's Achilles' Heel Revealed By Google Brain Researchers
Machine vision algorithms have a weakness that enables them to be deceived by images modified in ways humans could easily detect.
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Facebook Plans to Beam Internet to Backwaters With Lasers
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas.
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Minecraft Is a Testing Ground For Human-AI Collaboration
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.
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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots' Stupidity
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent.
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