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Google's AI Wizard nveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
If you want to blame someone for the hoopla around artificial intelligence, 69-year-old Google researcher Geoff Hinton is a good candidate.
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Building Tomorrow's Robots
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...
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The Physics of Time Travel Isn't Just the Stuff of Science Fiction
We're all time travelers nowadays. We project ourselves mentally into the misty past and the risky future.
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Small Group Scoops International Effort to Sequence Huge Wheat Genome
The wheat genome is finally complete.
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Anticipating Aftershocks
Researchers in June released a major report summarizing the scientific and hazard results of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast.
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her...
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Nustar Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.
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How Russian Trolls Lie Their Way to the Top of Your News Feed
Going viral used to be harmless.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Alan Turing: How His niversal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
Alan Turing is one of the great pioneers of the digital age, establishing the mathematical foundations of computing and using electromechanical digital machines...
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sing Robots in Patient Rehabilitation
Researchers conducted a study of user preferences as an initial step toward developing an interactive movement rehabilitation protocol.
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Old Phones Get New Life in High-Powered Computer Servers
Researchers at Princeton University have demonstrated that old smartphones can be used to build computer servers at much lower cost than high-end servers.
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AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas
Researchers at the artificial intelligence company Vicarious say they have developed a computer model that can solve CAPTCHAs.
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Twitter Bans Russian Government-Owned News Sites Rt and Sputnik from Buying Ads
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
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Inspired By Brain's Visual Cortex, New AI tterly Wrecks Captcha Security
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...
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Crispr Hacks Enable Pinpoint Repairs to Genome
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...
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Facebook Research Automatically Creates an Avatar From a Photo
A new machine-learning system can automatically creating the best possible avatar of a person's face from a photo by using a customized emoji generator.
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Two Ornl-Led Research Teams Receive $10.5 Million to Advance Quantum Computing For Scientific Applications
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded two research teams more than $10 million to assess the feasibility of quantum architectures in addressing big science...
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