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Isis' Opsec Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity
In the wake of the Paris attacks, US government officials have been vocal in their condemnation of encryption, suggesting that US companies like Apple and Google...
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Paris Attacks Fan Encryption Debate
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication...
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.
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Angelica Lim: Flutist. Global Roboticist. Proud Master of a Robot Dalmatian Named Sparky.
Angelica Lim, a "developer on emotion recognition" on the Pepper robot at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, specializes in building robots that can express emotions. ...
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Iran Demonstrates New Humanoid Robot Surena Iii
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...
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AI Advances Make It Possible to Search, Shop With Images
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.
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Incite Grants Awarded to 56 Computational Research Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science announced 56 projects aimed at addressing some of the world's most challenging scientific questions.
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Machine Vision Algorithm Learns to Recognize Hidden Facial Expressions
A new machine-vision algorithm can detect and identify microexpressions better than humans can.
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Studying Artificial 'consciousness' Could Pave the Way For Artificial Intelligence
Researchers from Japan and Australia are collaborating to assess whether robots or computers are capable of consciousness.
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ta Work to Safeguard Cyber-Physical Systems Made With Legacy Subsystems
University of Texas at Arlington professor has received a $397,907 U.S. Air Force grant to develop formal methods for identifying cyber-physical system mismatches...
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Artificial Neuronal Network Learns to se Human Language
Researchers have developed a cognitive model which is able to learn to communicate using human language.
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Georgia Tech Trains Watson AI to "chat," Spark More Creativity in Humans
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using IBM's Watson to advance how computers could help humans creatively solve problems.
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square.
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Bringing Iphone-Style Medical Research to the Android World
Weill Cornell Medical College professor Deborah Estrin says the ResearchStack project seeks to introduce an open source software framework similar to ResearchKit...
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.s. Government Lab Dabbles in New Computer Designs
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking to replace conventional computer systems by developing and obtaining new computer designs.
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
Federal courts have long given the government leeway to surveil and collect so-called "non-content" data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails...
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The Gene Hackers
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.
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