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The Fully Self-Driving Car Is Still Years Away
The arrival of fully autonomous automobiles is complicated by the debate over how much self-supervision should be allowed.
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The Juno Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
NASA has a habit of scheduling high-stakes maneuvers to coincide with patriotic holidays.
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se Your Eyes, Voice—and Thoughts—to Replace Passwords
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and...
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Engineers to se Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a method to detect the smell of chemicals used in explosives.
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Researchers Develop Method to Map Cancer Progression
Researchers at New York University have developed a computational method to map cancer progression.
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Artificial Intelligence Plus Common Sense
Austrian researchers are working to advance the development of artificial intelligence and equip robots with common sense.
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How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin's Civil War
A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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At Stanford, Experts Explore Artificial Intelligence's Social Benefits
A four-hour-long discussion at Stanford University recently focused on "The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Societal Benefit."
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Nasa's Juno Peers Inside a Giant
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its long anticipated arrival at Jupiter on July 4. Coming face-to-face with the gas giant, Juno will begin to unravel some of the...
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Quantum Cryptographers Set 400k Distance Record
Researchers in China say they have demonstrated a form of device-independent quantum cryptography, sending a key over a distance of more than 100 kilometers at...
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Robots Come to Each Other's Aid When They Get the Signal
KTH Royal Institute of Technology researchers have completed work on RECONFIG, a European Union-funded project aimed at enabling robots to use body language to...
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Standardizing Communications For the Internet of Things
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a framework that standardizes communications for the Internet of Things.
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Software Improves Ability to Catalog Bacterial Pathogens
Washington State University researchers have developed a software tool that can track, manage, analyze, and catalogue the short, repeating sequences of bacterial...
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This New Device Can Visualize Your Thoughts (sort Of)
The idea of a device that can materialize one's memories out of thin air seems like it could only exist in science fiction. But in a new study, researchers were...
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Drones Too Complicated? We'll Take Care of That
A new category of company is offering 'drones as a service' to customers who want to outsource the planning, compliance, and execution of commercial drone flights...
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The Advent of Virtual Humans
Justine Cassell has taken her virtual assistant Sara on a road trip.
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Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to...
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Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law
In the age of big data analytics, the proprietary algorithms web sites use to determine what data to display to visitors have the potential to illegally discriminate...
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