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IBM Watson's Creative Director on Amazon Echo and How AI Can Save Lives
In an interview, Maya Weinstein, creative director at IBM Watson, discusses artificial intelligence assistants and how the technology can help save lives.
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Pluto's Heart: Like a Cosmic 'lava Lamp'
Combining computer models with topographic and compositional data gathered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last summer, New Horizons team members have determined...
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This 'demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip
Security flaws in software can be tough to find. Purposefully planted ones—hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs—are often even stealthier.
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Google nveils 'artificial Creativity'
Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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Study of 1 Million Sites Shows Just How Closely We're Watched
The web is watching you. Chunks of code hide inside every website, tracking your online behaviour.
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'super Mario Brothers' Is Hard
Researchers found the problem of solving a level in the "Super Mario Brothers" video game is as challenging as the most vexing problems in the PSPACE complexity...
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Tech Turns to Biology as Data Storage Needs Explode
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists...
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Rosetta's Comet Contains Ingredients For Life
Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two...
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Nasa Radar Finds Ice Age Record in Mars' Polar Cap
Scientists using radar data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age recorded in the planet's north...
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Two-Hundred-Terabyte Maths Proof Is Largest Ever
Three computer scientists have announced the largest-ever mathematics proof: a file that comes in at a whopping 200 terabytes1, roughly equivalent to all the digitized...
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Self-Driving Truck Acts Like an Animal
The traditional way of developing vehicles may not work when developing future autonomous vehicles.
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sing Cellphone Data to Study the Spread of Cholera
Researchers recently led a study showing how human mobility patterns contributed to the spread of a cholera epidemic in Senegal in 2005.
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Push For Encryption Law Falters Despite Apple Case Spotlight
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...
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On Your Mark. Get Set. Print!
Athletic footwear is about to be customized in the extreme, through a combination of computer vision-enabled scanning and three-dimensional printing.
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Illuminating Life's Building Blocks
Biophysicist Joerg Bewersdorf says that 2006 was fluorescence microscopy's annus mirabilis—a 'miraculous year' as momentous in its own way as 1905, when Albert...
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Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth's Missing Search Engine
"Why don't you click on the tennis court?" Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested.
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Japanese-Language Myshake App Crowdsources Earthquake Shaking
Researchers have released a Japanese version of an application that crowdsources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect earthquakes.
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