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New Shark Spotter Algorithm Lets Surfers Take to the Break With Confidence
Shark Spotter is an algorithm that uses video footage streamed from drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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A Trick That Hides Censored Websites Inside Cat Videos
Slitheen is a new system that uses decoy routing to conceal banned websites inside of innocuous cat videos.
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Computer Geeks Develop Algorithm to Detect Defects in Fruits and Grade Them Automatically
A new image-processing technique automatically checks the quality of fruits based on their color and texture.
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French Election Is Facebook's Fake News Litmus Test
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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Nasa Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April...
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Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics
Researchers have developed a method for wirelessly powering ingestible electronic devices.
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When Artificial Intelligence Evaluates Chess Champions
Jean-Marc Alliot at the Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse in France has developed a system that directly ranks chess players based on the quality...
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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Geeks V Government: The Battle Over Public Key Cryptography
Two graduate students stood silently beside a lectern, listening as their professor presented their work to a conference.
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'iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing
Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun.
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A Massive New Library of 3D Images Could Help Your Robot Butler Get Around Your House
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...
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sing Data Science to nderstand Global Climate Systems
Researchers at the University of Rochester are using data science to understand the phenomena driving the global climate system.
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Scientific Discovery Game Significantly Speeds p Neuroscience Research Process
Mozak is a new scientific discovery game enabling citizen scientists to generate three-dimensional reconstructions of neurons in different regions of human and...
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Scientists Can Blind a Self-Driving Car From Seeing Pedestrians
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to prevent machine-vision systems from seeing specific categories of objects in a scene.
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Organ Donation: A New Frontier For Ai?
Researchers are developing a computerized machine-learning method for better predicting how well a typical organ transplant will proceed.
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Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
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The Next Big Hit in Molecule Hollywood
Chemists are dreamers. Every day, they imagine molecules floating in space, with atoms moving about in a stately dance.
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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