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Virginia Tech Professor Builds Algorithm to Detect Traces of Cyberbullying
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Virginia Tech Professor Builds Algorithm to Detect Traces of Cyberbullying

Virginia Polytechnic and State University professor Bert Huang is working to develop an automatic system for detecting cyberbullying.

New Approach Developed By Humanists and Scientists Maps Evolution of Literature
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New Approach Developed By Humanists and Scientists Maps Evolution of Literature

Researchers have partly developed a new approach for identifying subtle patterns to map out how ancient Latin and Greek texts relate to each other.

Into the Breach
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Into the Breach

Cyber ratings firms help companies evaluate the risks of doing business.

New Computer Vision Challenge Wants to Teach Robots to See in 3D
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New Computer Vision Challenge Wants to Teach Robots to See in 3D

The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...

Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars

Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...

Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial with the Potential to Disrupt Everything
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Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial with the Potential to Disrupt Everything

Consider three hair-pulling problems: 1 percent of the world's energy is used every year just to produce fertilizer; solar panels aren't powerful enough to provide...

Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Takes on Chinese Poker Players
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Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Takes on Chinese Poker Players

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence to compete against six professional Chinese poker players in a 36,000-hand exhibition match in China.

In the Future, We Will Control Our Mobiles ­sing Gestures
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In the Future, We Will Control Our Mobiles ­sing Gestures

Researchers are developing a next-generation interface that will enable people to interact with mobile devices using gestures.

Algorithm and Rhyme
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Algorithm and Rhyme

San Jose State University professor Margareta Ackerman has developed an artificial intelligence-based system designed to assist musicians in songwriting.

23andme Given Green Light to Sell Dna Tests For 10 Diseases
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23andme Given Green Light to Sell Dna Tests For 10 Diseases

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home genetic test that can help to determine a person's risk of developing certain diseases....

Chinese Scientists Engineer Flexible, Faster-Swimming Robot
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Chinese Scientists Engineer Flexible, Faster-Swimming Robot

Chinese researchers have developed a flexible, remote-controlled robotic ray that can swim through water nearly twice as fast as previous robo-swimmers without...

Information Storage With a Nanoscale Twist
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Information Storage With a Nanoscale Twist

Researchers have discovered a rotational force inside magnetic vortices, which they say could make it easier to design ultrahigh-capacity disk drives.

How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry
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How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry

Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel...

Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells
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Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells

No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones.

Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector For High-Speed Data
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Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector For High-Speed Data

Researchers have developed tiny "black holes" on a silicon wafer that serve as a new type of photodetector.

Inkjet-Printed Flexible Memory Devices
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Inkjet-Printed Flexible Memory Devices

Researchers have developed flexible, inkjet-printable memory cells they say could lead to mass-produced printable electronics. T

Stanford Researchers Create Deep Learning Algorithm That Could Boost Drug Development
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Stanford Researchers Create Deep Learning Algorithm That Could Boost Drug Development

A new type of deep learning, known as one-shot learning, could be used to help drug development because it only requires a small number of data points.

Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways
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Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways

Wei Xu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is leading the development of visualization tools for analyzing large and varied datasets...

The Diy Electronics Transforming Research
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The Diy Electronics Transforming Research

A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...

Nasa's Cassini Mission Prepares For 'grand Finale' at Saturn
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Nasa's Cassini Mission Prepares For 'grand Finale' at Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story.
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