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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.

Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
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Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through...

Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos

To an untrained AI, the world is a blur of confusing data streams.

­ta Researcher Seeks to Minimize Risks For ­nmanned Aerial Systems Over Populated Areas
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­ta Researcher Seeks to Minimize Risks For ­nmanned Aerial Systems Over Populated Areas

A researcher will use a $550,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to quantify risks posed by unmanned aerial systems and create algorithms to reduce those...

Nsf Grant Aims to ­se Big Data to Improve Crops
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Nsf Grant Aims to ­se Big Data to Improve Crops

Researchers have received a $1.2-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to help biologists improve crop management.

Cu Boulder Wants Humans to Experience Secret Life of Pets
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Cu Boulder Wants Humans to Experience Secret Life of Pets

Researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to design and build wearable technologies to help humans experience the world through a dog's...

Teaching Computational Thinking Sooner
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Teaching Computational Thinking Sooner

Are there benefits to teaching computational thinking to preschoolers?

Aussies Win Amazon Robotics Challenge
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Aussies Win Amazon Robotics Challenge

Team ACRV, from the Australian Center for Robotic Vision at the Queensland University of Technology, won the final combined task in Amazon's 2017 Robotics Challenge...

Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus
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Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus

The longest amount of time that a spacecraft has survived on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes.

How to Map the Circuits That Define ­S
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How to Map the Circuits That Define ­S

Marta Zlatic owns what could be the most tedious film collection ever.

Hacking Cybersecurity to Anticipate Attacks
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Hacking Cybersecurity to Anticipate Attacks

The ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks in July highlighted developing a hacking model for anticipating cyberattacks.

How Can Humans Keep Control of Ai?
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How Can Humans Keep Control of Ai?

Osaka University president Shojiro Nishio stresses the need to keep artificial intelligence under human control.

Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects
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Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects

Researchers have developed a design system to catalog the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for...

An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You're Being Sarcastic on Twitter
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An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You're Being Sarcastic on Twitter

Researchers have developed a deep-learning textual sentiment algorithm which can analyze tweets to pick up sarcasm and general emotional subtext.

The Future of Search Engines
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The Future of Search Engines

Researchers aim to improve enhance search engines by integrating artificial intelligence with annotation insights and information encoded in domain-specific resources...

Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI
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Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI

When Jason Matheny joined the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a program manager in 2009, he made a habit of chatting to the organization's...

National Ignition Facility Recreates the Interior of Heavy Stars
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National Ignition Facility Recreates the Interior of Heavy Stars

In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."

New Clues to ­niverse's Structure Revealed
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New Clues to ­niverse's Structure Revealed

What is our universe made of, and has its composition changed over time?

Nsf Issues Awards to Advance a National Research Infrastructure For Neuroscience
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Nsf Issues Awards to Advance a National Research Infrastructure For Neuroscience

The U.S. National Science Foundation has allocated 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience awards to help the research community understand the human brain...

New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'skyrim' Nonplayer Characters
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New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'skyrim' Nonplayer Characters

CIF-CK is a new artificial intelligence architecture program that uses social behavior models to make individual "Skyrim" non-player characters more reactive and...
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