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AI Player Alphago to Play Chinese Go Champion
DeepMind's Go-playing artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May will play against top Chinese Go player Ke Jie in a three-game match in China.
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Science Reveals Yet Another Reason Octopuses and Squid Are So Weird
Octopuses are aliens living on Earth.
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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....
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Tim Berners-Lee: Selling Private Citizens' Browsing Data Is 'disgusting'
Sir Tim Berners-Lee says he is appalled by the Trump administration's decision to dismantle net neutrality and let Internet service providers sell customers' browsing...
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Electronic Synapses That Can Learn: Towards an Artificial Brain?
European researchers from several institutions have developed an artificial synapse on a chip that can learn autonomously.
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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...
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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.
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Learning to Think Like a Computer
The number of computer science majors has more than doubled since 2011, according to the Computing Research Association.
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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...
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Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones.
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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.
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Google's Video AI Was Tricked Into Thinking a Video About Apes Was About Spaghetti
Researchers have successfully tricked Google's Cloud Video Intelligence application programming interface into identifying a video about gorillas as one dealing...
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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
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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.
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Apprenticeship Emerging To Fill Skills Gaps
New approaches to apprenticeship aim to provide talented, if not traditionally trained, computing professionals.
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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...
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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...
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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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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
Google operates what is surely the largest computer network on Earth, a system that comprises custom-built, warehouse-sized data centers spanning 15 locations in...
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