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Israel's Quantum Leap
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Quantum Information Science Center has received a $2.1-million government contract to construct a national quantum communications...
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage...
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Discoveries Fuel Fight Over Universe's First Light
Not long after the Big Bang, all went dark.
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Researchers Land $3 Million to Build Cyberattack Defenses
Researchers at Clemson University are part of a team of computer experts from five universities to develop new defenses to protect data from computer hacking.
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How the Brain Recognizes What the Eye Sees
Salk Institute researchers have analyzed how neurons in the V2 section of the brain respond to natural scenes.
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3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover?
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Deepmind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions
DeepMind has created a YouTube dataset of 300,000 video clips and 400 human action classes to train its deep-learning algorithms to better identify human activities...
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The Billion Dollar War Over Maps
During a test drive near Ford's Michigan headquarters, the team noticed something strange with its self-driving cars.
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Everything We Know About Russia's Election-Hacking Playbook
Just when the cybersecurity world thinks it's found the limits of how far Russian hackers will go to meddle in foreign elections, a new clue emerges that suggests...
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Nasa Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp...
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Robot Dog Has an Artificial Woof That Sounds Like the Real Thing
Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
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Robot Cars Can't Count on S in an Emergency
Many automotive technologists are skeptical that autonomous cars will be able to trust humans in emergency situations.
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AI Gets So-So Grade in Chinese niversity Entrance Exam
An artificial intelligence machine completed the math section of China's annual university entrance exam faster than human students, but with a below-average grade...
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The Mathematicians Who Want to Save Democracy
Leaning back in his chair, Jonathan Mattingly swings his legs up onto his desk, presses a key on his laptop and changes the results of the 2012 elections in North...
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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?
Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck.
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Robots Will Be More seful If They Are Made to Lack Confidence
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that seeks and accepts human oversight.
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Computer-Aided Imaging Technique Could Reduce Risk of Second Breast Cancer Surgery
A new computer-aided diagnostic technique combines imaging with artificial intelligence to detect the difference between cancerous and benign cells.
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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