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World's First Silicon Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Alexander Tait and colleagues at Princeton University say they have built the world's first integrated silicon photonic neuromorphic chip, a development that could...
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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam.
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Artificial Intelligence Robots: Why Human Baby Brains Are Smarter Than AI
Machines are capable of understanding speech, recognizing faces and driving cars safely, making recent technological advancements seem impressively powerful.
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.
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World's First Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.
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New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher
The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of...
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Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI
Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
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Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say
Researchers from Oxford University found that an automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to...
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Cybercriminals Can Steal All Your Passwords From Thin Air With This $25 Wi-Fi Hack
Researchers have developed a system that can analyze Wi-Fi networks and covertly detect and record passwords by looking at the directions radio waves travel to...
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Virtual Reality App Makes Haptics as Immersive as Visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application and a haptic chair that enable users to enhance their virtual experience with customizable...
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Online Password Guessing Threat nderestimated
Researchers have created different guessing frameworks that prioritize the order of guessing based on attackers having access to different types of personal information...
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Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions sing AI-Driven Methods
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities have launched an online service that enables optimal group decisions.
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...
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Trump's Plans to Shake p the Tech World
Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...
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