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Virtual Peer Pressure Works Just as Well as the Real Thing
Virtual pressure from a computer-simulated peer is just as motivating as real peer pressure.
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Rise of the Robo-Journalists? Google Teaches an AI the Art of Writing a Good Headline
The Google Brain Team says it has made strides in teaching computers to summarize text, and has developed an algorithm that can write "very good" headlines.
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Who Would Win the Coding Olympics?
U.S. programmers landed in 28th place in a HackerRank compilation of the results of 1.4 million coding challenges by approximately 300,000 developers.
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What Robots Can Learn From Babies
New software can predict how objects captured by a computing device's camera will most likely behave.
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Here's How Russian Hackers Could Actually Tip an American Election
Reports this week of Russian intrusions into U.S. election systems have startled many voters, but computer experts are not surprised.
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Comey: Fbi Wants 'adult Conversation' on Device Encryption
FBI Director James Comey warned again Tuesday about the bureau's inability to access digital devices because of encryption and said investigators were collecting...
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How Driverless Cars May Interact With People
There are plenty of unanswered questions about how self-driving cars would function in the real world, like understanding local driving customs and handing controls...
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Print Your Own 3D Lucy to Work Out How the Famous Hominin Died
The world's most famous fossil is now open source. 3D scans of Lucy—a 3.18-million-year-old hominin found in Ethiopia—were released on 29 August, allowing anyone...
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Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.
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A Nanoscale Wireless Communication System via Plasmonic Antennas
Boston College researchers have developed the first nanoscale wireless communication system using antennas that send and receive surface plasmons.
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sing Data Science to Confront Policing Challenges
Police are turning to academic institutions using machine learning methods to predict and prevent adverse incidents.
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When Computers Learn Human Languages, They Also Learn Human Prejudices
New research from Princeton University suggests computers learning human languages can demonstrate prejudices and biased word associations.
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Nasa's Next-Gen Ships Run on Last-Gen Chips
Earlier this summer, NASA announced that ARM Holdings' A53 will be the microprocessor core design at the heart of the agency's next generation of spacecraft.
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System Might Detect Doctored Images and Videos For the Military
An international coalition of researchers is developing technologies that could help the U.S. military detect manipulations of open source images.
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The Man Who Created Leappad Wants To Turn Your Eyes Into a Mouse
First came the computer mouse. Then the touchscreen.
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Stretching the Limit of Silicon Nanowires For Next-Generation Electronics
Flexible electronics, which could be used to control flexible robots, depend on the ability to produce electrical circuits that can be repeatedly stretched and...
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High-Speed Video Footage Solves One of the Great Mysteries of Human Blood Flow
Red blood cells are flexible biconcave discs that spend their lives suspended in blood plasma.
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G.e., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-p
It may not qualify as a lightning-bolt eureka moment, but Jeffrey R. Immelt, chief executive of General Electric, recalls the June day in 2009 that got him thinking...
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