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Largest Prime Number Ever Found Has Over 23 Million Digits
Maths fans can't get enough of numbers that are millions of digits long and can only be divided by themselves and one. Now, through a collaborative effort, utilising...
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Do We Need a Tech Boom For the Elderly?
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...
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A Dead-Simple Algorithm Reveals the True Toll of Voter Id Laws
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to match individuals across government databases with nearly 100% accuracy by using a few basic identifiers.
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DARPA Launches Subterranean Challenge to Improve nderground Ops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge asks participants to develop systems that could help humans map, traverse, and search...
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Psychedelic Toasters Fool Image Recognition Tech
Researchers say they have created psychedelic stickers that can fool image-recognition software into seeing objects that do not exist.
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Your Phone Will Know You Better Than Your Friends Do, U of T Researcher Predicts
Richard Zemel at the University of Toronto in Canada discusses artificial intelligence developments he anticipates for the year ahead.
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Physicists Take First Step Toward Cell-Sized Robots
Researchers say they have developed a microscale robot exoskeleton that can quickly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in the surrounding...
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How A Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found 'worst' Chip Flaw
The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.
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Russia and Venezuela's Plan to Sidestep Sanctions: Virtual Currencies
Russian and Venezuelan officials are hoping virtual currencies can help their countries make an end run around American sanctions.
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...
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How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue
What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.
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Deep Learning Sharpens Views of Cells and Genes
Eyes are said to be the window to the soul—but researchers at Google see them as indicators of a person's health.
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It's Time to Weave Computational Thinking Into K-12
A new study stresses the need for computational thinking to be integrated across K-12 school curriculums.
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How an AI 'cat-and-Mouse Game' Generates Believable Fake Photos
A new artificial intelligence system analyzes thousands of celebrity photos, infers common patterns, and generates new images that are similar.
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AI Early Diagnosis Could Save Heart and Cancer Patients
Ultromics is a new artificial intelligence system that can diagnose heart scans with much greater accuracy than conventional methods, picking up details physicians...
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Wisdom of the Crowd Accurately Predicts Supreme Court Decisions
Researchers say they have analyzed how well crowdsourcing can predict decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court by crunching data from the online FantasySCOTUS league...
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Does Your Phone Know If You're Sick?
A Notre Dame University professor suggests in the next two years there will be significant progress in incorporating software into smartphones to assess one's health...
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Machine Learning Will Change Jobs
Carnegie Mellon University professor Tom Mitchell and MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson expect machine-learning computer systems to have a transformative economic impact,...
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A 'stem' Parent Boosts Girls' Participation in Science Degrees
Researchers at the universities of Michigan and Arkansas recently conducted a study showing that having one parent or guardian work in a STEM field makes it more...
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