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niversity of Tokyo Team Performs Most Complex Earthquake Simulation to Date
Researchers have created a record-setting earthquake wave simulation.
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NASA Astronauts Will Get to Use This Extraterrestrial Supercomputer
A standard Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Apollo 4000-series business computer is being used to conduct science experiments on the International Space Station.
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Tech Giants May Have to be Broken Up, says Tim Berners-Lee
The World Wide Web inventor says Silicon Valley firms have too much clout and 'optimism has cracked'.
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Here's How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...
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Search Engine for CCTV Lets You Find People From Their Description
A new system uses machine learning to automatically match individuals in videos with their descriptions.
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Researchers Combine Technologies for New Digital Stethoscope
A prototype digital stethoscope for grading heart ailments and heart-pump performance incorporates precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology, and machine...
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Christie’s First to Sell Art Made by AI
A painted portrait produced by a machine learning algorithm was auctioned for $432,000 by Christie's auction house in New York.
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Sarita Adve Named Recipient of ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
The University of Illinois professor helped develop memory consistency models.
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Electronic Voting Was Going to Be the Future. Now Paper's Making a Comeback
You could call it buyer's remorse. Five US states went all in on electronic voting machines, and four of those states are poised to get out.
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The Next Big One? Earthquake Scientists Look to AI
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to improve data analysis to better understand earthquakes, predict their behavior, and warn of seismic events faster...
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NATO Military Exercise Will Test Robots, Autonomous Vehicles
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is conducting a month-long military exercise using a variety of new technologies.
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Need to Fix an iPhone or Android Device? You Can Now Break DRM nder New .S. Rules
It is now legal in the U.S. for consumers and repair companies to break an electronic device's digital rights management protections in order to to repair it.
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Puerto Rico Is Fighting Zika With Cloud Technology
A project to track Zika-carrying mosquitoes across Puerto Rico is developing solutions that could help other parts of the world cope with mosquito-borne diseases...
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Grocers Enlist Robots to Chase E-Commerce
Grocers are deploying robots and artificial intelligence to boost warehouse efficiency amid intensifying competition for consumer food spending.
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NIH Grant Funds Development of a Wayfinding App for the Blind
Researchers are using $1.1-million U.S. National Institutes of Health grant to develop a student's system for guiding the blind into an iPhone app.
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New Technology Advances Protection of Critical Systems From Insider-Assisted Attacks
A new covert defense algorithm employs evasive tactics to deceive cyberattackers targeting critical systems from within.
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AI Makes New Video Games by Watching People Play Super Mario, Kirby
A machine learning system taught itself the basics of video game design by watching videos of people playing games.
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Efforts to Acknowledge the Risks of New AI Technology
The ACM Future of Computing Academy is calling for researchers to specify the potentially negative societal aspects of artificial intelligence technologies, as...
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