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Scientists Find the Skull of Humanity's Ancestor, on a Computer
Researchers reconstructed a virtual skull of the last common human ancestor using computerized-tomography scans of 260 modern-day skulls from various populations...
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AIs That Deblur Faces Could Make People on CCTV Easier to Identify
A new artificial intelligence system can automatically deblur photographs of people's faces.
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Objects Can Now Change Colors Like a Chameleon
A new system uses reprogrammable ink to allow objects to change colors when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) and visible light sources.
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Computer Model Turns Text Into Animation
Scientists have developed a computer model that can directly render text describing physical movements as computer-generated animation, an initial step toward creating...
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How a Zebrafish Model May Hold a Key to Biology
Harvard University reseaerchers used open-source software tools to build a neural network with an architecture different from that of a zebrafish brain, for comparison...
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One in Five U.K. Schools Says Students Have Broken Into Computer Systems
A cybersecurity audit found 21% of 430 U.K. schools had their computers, networks, or servers hacked by students.
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COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.
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Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Controls Gets Its License
The ROBOpilot Unmanned Aircraft Conversion System passed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Practical Test for piloting light aircraft and completed...
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Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
Tomorrow's wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.
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MIT's Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...
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AI-Powered Cameras Become New Tool Against Mass Shootings
Artificial intelligence is transforming surveillance cameras from passive devices into active observers that can identify people, suspicious behavior, and guns....
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The Robo Racing Cars Accelerating Driverless Tech
The Roborace motorsport competition is a testbed for autonomous vehicle technology, as international teams pit driverless electric racing cars against each other...
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Digital Transformation: A Business Imperative
Advancing to Digital 2.0 can help the modern company anticipate the needs of the customer.
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Hurricane Forecasters Turn to New Tools to Predict When Storms Will Rapidly Intensify
Scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to gain a better understanding of what happens within a hurricane during periods...
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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—its legend begins with a gator and a trio of researchers.
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Facial Recognition: School ID Checks Lead to GDPR Fine
The Swedish Data Protection Authority fined the municipality of Skelleftea for using facial recognition to track students in violation of the European Union's General...
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Allen School Releases Robotic Race Car Platform to Drive Advances in AI Research, Education
The newly released Multi-agent System for non-Holonomic Racing (MuSHR) platform is intended for use in assembling a robotic race car, as well as for use as a tool...
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Quantum Criticality Could Be a Boon for Qubit Designers
A new technique can transform the quantum behavior of an intermetallic crystal of cerium, palladium, and silicon so electrons compete to occupy either orbitals...
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AI Could Help Data Centers Run Far More Efficiently
A new system automatically learns how to optimally allocate data processing workloads across thousands of servers as a means of boosting data center efficiency....
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