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Looking For Art in Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth College professors will explore the potential for algorithms to produce human-quality dance music, sonnets, and short stories.
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Headaches Likely to Grow Over Auto Cybersecurity Concerns
Issues related to automobile cybersecurity are likely to increase, but U.S. auto cybersecurity standards are not expected until at least 2018.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Create the Next Wonder Material?
It's a strong contender for the geekiest video ever made: a close-up of a smartphone with line upon line of numbers and symbols scrolling down the screen. But when...
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Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
If you've ever run a business, whether it's an ice cream shop or a Fortune 500 company, then you've probably kept a ledger.
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Found: Clues About Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
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Hacking Into Homes: 'smart Home' Security Flaws Found in Popular System
University of Michigan researchers have developed a way to hack into the leading "smart home" automation system and get the PIN code to a home's front door.
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New Health Sensing Tool Measures Lung Function Over a Phone Call, From Anywhere in the World
University of Washington researchers have developed a health-sensing tool that can accurately measure lung function over a phone call.
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Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Researchers have developed a "myoelectric" haptic system designed to work with a prosthetic hand.
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Ibm Inches Ahead of Google in Race For Quantum Computing Power
All kinds of things are hooked up to the Internet these days, but Jerry Chow's computer stands out. Chilled by liquid helium, his superconducting processor uses...
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Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world's largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square...
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Hiding in the Sunshine: The Search for Other Earths
We humans might not be the only ones to ponder our place in the universe.
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The Government Wants Your Fingerprint to nlock Your Phone. Should that Be Allowed?
As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, federal officials were quietly waging a different...
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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The Struggle with Image Glut
As the fruit-fly larva wriggles forwards in the video, a crackle of neural activity shoots up its half-millimetre-long body.
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Inspired By Nature
University of Washington researchers are collaborating with Microsoft to encode, store, and retrieve digital text and images using DNA molecules.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Crosses Rugged Plateau
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has nearly finished crossing a stretch of the most rugged and difficult-to-navigate terrain encountered during the mission's 44 months...
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Maiden Voyage of Stanford's Humanoid Robotic Diver Recovers Treasures From King Louis Xiv's Wrecked Flagship
Stanford University researchers are calling the maiden voyage of the OceanOne humanoid diving robot a significant astonishing success.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...
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As S Drops 'cyber Bombs,' Isis Retools Its Own Cyber Army
The Islamic State has been deft in its use of the Internet as a communications tool.
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