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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local niversities
At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...
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The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other
Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...
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NASA's Swarmathon Improves Student Skills in Robotics, Computer Science
College and university students recently participated in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's third annual Swarmathon, a robotic programming competition...
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Editing Memories and Sensations in the Brain With Tech
What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?
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GRACE-FO: Cracking a Cold Case
Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels—as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly...
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...
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What's Behind Russia's New Internet Crackdown
China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade.
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New Material Is Key Step Toward More Powerful Computing
Oregon State University researchers have developed a compound that constitutes a significant advance toward quantum computing.
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Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?
Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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There's a New Test in Town for Ranking Supercomputers
Researchers have devised a new benchmark for rating the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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Random Quantum Circuit Easiest Way to Beat Classical Computer
One of the near-term (but somewhat irrelevant) goals of quantum computing is something called quantum supremacy.
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Incredibly Detailed Embryo Maps Chart Each Cell's Developmental Fate
Painstaking genomic analyses of thousands of individual cells in frogs and fish have yielded the most detailed roadmaps yet charting an embryo's journey from a...
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Meet Celeris, the First Interactive Coastal Wave Modeling Software That Runs Faster Than Real-Time
Newly developed open-source nearshore modeling software runs faster than real-time.
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Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference
Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the...
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Mars Quakes Set to Reveal Tantalizing Clues to Planet's Early Years
A planetary stethoscope will soon be on its way to listen to the heartbeat of Mars.
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The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...
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Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals
The parallel existence of an intelligent species closely related to us has long fascinated scientists and the public alike.
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