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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
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Your Broadband Provider Can se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You
How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own...
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Cryptographers and Geneticists nite to Analyze Genomes They Can't See
Stanford University cryptographer Dan Boneh and geneticist Gill Bejerano have developed a secure multiparty computation algorithm to discover disease-linked genetic...
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Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too
Researchers have developed a way for high school students and first-year engineering students to learn robot intelligence technologies.
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions
Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor...
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Revolutionary Approach Brings 3D Sound Into the Living Room
Researchers have developed the Media Device Orchestration concept, which helps create a three-dimensional audio experience using common home devices.
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Breakthrough Could Make Quantum Data Transmission a Reality
Researchers have relayed a quantum-secured message containing multiple bits of information for each photon through the air above a city.
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Collection of Letters By Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
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Nsf Announces $17.7m in Awards For Cross-Disciplinary Data Sciences Projects
The U.S. National Science Foundation will allocate $17.7 million to fund 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science projects that support research...
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...
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A Good Read: AI Evaluates Quality of Short Stories
Researchers say they have developed neural networks that assess short narratives to predict which stories will appeal to large audiences.
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Microsoft Claims New Speech Recognition Record, Achieving a Superhuman 5.1% Error Rate
Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research Group says it has achieved a 5.1% error rate for its speech-recognition technology.
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Study Finds 'modest Correlation' Between Journalists' Social Networks and Ideology of Their News Content
Researchers at Northeastern University say they have found a "modest correlation" between journalists' Twitter networks and the ideological aspects of their news...
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ta Researchers Developing Airborne Network Computing Platform For avs
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have received a grant to develop a networked airborne computing platform for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles...
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Robot the Musical
Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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Teaching Kids Coding, By the Book
Girls Who Code has arranged a deal with Penguin to release 13 books over the next two years.
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