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Mathematicians Create Warped Worlds in Virtual Reality
"It feels like the entire universe is within a sphere that is maybe within a couple metres' radius," says topologist Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University...
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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DARPA Wants to Cultivate the ltimate Transistor of the Future
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this month will present the Dynamic Range-enhanced Electronics and Materials program, which aims to develop a...
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Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is supporting research on deciphering the timing and sequences of bird calls.
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It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
OpenAI's Igor Mordatch is investigating new ways for machines to converse with each other.
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Coders and Librarians Team p to Save Scientific Data
Software programmers, librarians, and others are archiving scientific data from government websites.
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Molecular Motor-Powered Biocomputers
European researchers recently launched a research project that aims to develop a biocomputer based on highly efficient molecular motors that will use a fraction...
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Origami-Inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover
The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout.
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Inside the Hunt For Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election, Tillmann Werner was sitting down...
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How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles
A recently published paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research explores how interactions between humans and self-driving cars could change the rules...
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Bringing Augmented Reality to Warehouses
Researchers have created PickAR, a headset that uses AR technology to overlay picking information so warehouses can find and process orders with greater efficiency...
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New Extension Improves Inflight Wi-Fi
A new Google Chrome browser extension dramatically upgrades Wi-Fi browsing speeds at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
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How Aristotle Created the Computer
George Boole is often described as a mathematician, but he saw himself as a philosopher, following in the footsteps of Aristotle.
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Stanford Researchers Map Fear and Happiness in Historic London
Researchers have mapped out how readers of 18th- and 19th-century British novels felt emotionally about London.
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Researchers Are sing Darwin's Theories to Evolve Ai, So Only the Strongest Algorithms Survive
Researchers at Google Brain and OpenAI are applying Darwinian principles of evolution to advance artificial intelligence.
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Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day
As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics—Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars...
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It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
Igor Mordatch is IS working to build machines that can carry on a conversation.
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Wi-Fi on Rays of Light: 100 Times Faster, and Never Overloaded
Researchers have developed a Wi-Fi network based on directable infrared light rays.
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