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Australia Says Its First Self-Driving Car Can 'navigate Without Driver Input'
An autonomous automobile developed by German manufacturer Bosch in collaboration with the Australian government were to be tested on Australian roads this week....
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An Infrared Look at Hurricane Matthew from Nasa's Airs
Hurricane Matthew, currently an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, continues to bear down on the southeastern United...
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Japanese Robotics Giant Gives Its Arms Some Brains
The big, dumb, monotonous industrial robots found in many factories could soon be quite a bit smarter, thanks to the introduction of machine-learning skills that...
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.s. Tech Giants Are Investing Billions to Keep Data in Europe
In the battle to dominate Europe's cloud computing market, American tech giants are spending big to build up their local credibility.
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Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable—which would be a boon for future astronauts there—if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those...
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World's Tiniest Machines Win Chemistry Nobel
Three chemists who created tiny molecular machines have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their intricate designs.
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Science at Cusp of 'transformational' Grasp of Life via Cell Modeling, Researchers Say
A new paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to...
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At the Bleeding Edge of AI: Quantum Grocery Picking and Transfer Learning
Don't laugh, but there may come a time when quantum computers are sorting out your grocery deliveries, and if Paul Clarke, CTO of the online food store Ocado is...
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Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
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Can We Open the Black Box of Ai?
Dean Pomerleau can still remember his first tussle with the black-box problem.
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Making Construction Sites Safer
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany want to make construction sites safer with interactive virtual reality training courses.
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Physicists Create World's First Time Crystal
University of Maryland researchers say they have created the world's first time crystal, which could lead to quantum memory systems.
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Google Builds a Robotic Hive-Mind Kindergarten
How many robots does it take to open a door?
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Even with Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are...
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Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life
Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Begins Next Mars Chapter
After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA's Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill...
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The Problem With Google's 'star Trek' Computer
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer...
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a Receives $1.9m Nsf Award to Test Computer-Assisted Surgical Training
University of Arizona researchers are using a $1.9-million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a computerized surgical training tool that...
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