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Will AI sher in a New Era of Hacking?
Advanced artificial intelligence systems developed to defend assets in cyberspace might be turned to malevolent purposes by cybercriminals.
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Google's Deepmind AI Can Lip-Read Tv Shows Better Than a Pro
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...
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Japan Aims For Superefficient Supercomputer By 2017
Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology plans to build a super-efficient supercomputer.
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Researchers Build Tool to Help Prevent 'selfie Deaths'
A growing number of people die every year while taking photos of themselves at dangerous locations, leading researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to look for...
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China's Secretive Space Program Threatens Nasa's Dominance
The launch of the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft in western China last month marked another great leap forward for the nation's space program and its ambition to send manned...
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Richard Tapia Receives the Aaas Public Engagement with Science Award
The award recognizes Tapia’s “remarkable career blending world-class scholarship, admirable mentoring and profound contributions to science, technology, engineering...
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Nasa Saturn Mission Prepares For 'ring-Grazing Orbits'
A thrilling ride is about to begin for NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Japan Plans Supercomputer to Leap Into Technology Future
Japan plans to build the world's fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country's manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop...
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Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt...
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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals By Their Faces
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University applied a variety of machine-vision algorithms to study faces of criminals and noncriminals. Their neural network...
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Malware Turns Pcs Into Eavesdropping Devices
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have demonstrated SPEAKE(a)R, malware that can turn computers into perpetual eavesdropping machines. The malware...
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AI Academic Warns on Brain Drain to Tech Groups
As artificial intelligence (AI) professionals increasingly seek positions within major technology companies, the exodus threatens to stall academic research in...
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Single Photon Converter – A Key Component of Quantum Internet
Physicists from the University of Warsaw and the University of Oxford have constructed an electro-optical device capable of modifying the quantum properties of...
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Miniature Wi-Fi Device Supplies Missing Link For the Internet of Things
Stanford University researchers have developed HitchHike, a tiny, ultra-low-energy wireless radio that enables data transmission using just micro-watts of energy...
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Cracked, Frozen, and Tipped Over: New Clues From Pluto's Past
Sputnik Planitia, a 1,000-kilometer-wide basin within the iconic heart-shaped region observed on Pluto's surface, could be in its present location because accumulation...
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Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using...
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World's First Silicon Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Alexander Tait and colleagues at Princeton University say they have built the world's first integrated silicon photonic neuromorphic chip, a development that could...
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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam.
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Tracking the Flow of Quantum Information
Yale University researchers have developed a formula for understanding where quantum objects land when they are transmitted, which they say provides insight for...
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