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FBI Chief Warns Encryption Emboldens Would-Be Islamic State Attackers
Barring law enforcement authorities' access to encrypted communications would make it easier for Islamic State sympathizers to attack the United States, FBI Chief...
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Elon Musk Gives $10 Million in Grants to Study Safe AI
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has given the Future of Life Institute $10 million to be distributed as 37 grants to research projects designed to keep artificial...
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Bbc Offers Free Tiny Computers to .k. Students
The BBC is partnering with more than two dozen companies and organizations to provide at least 1 million British school children with a free pocket-sized computer...
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Project ses Crowdsourced Computing to Improve Water Filtration
Researchers and more than 150,000 volunteers used crowdsourced computing to simulate the flow of water molecules flowing through nanotubes.
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Hi-Tech Harness Lets Owners Communicate With Canine Companions
A dog harness outfitted with sensors and a computer developed by researchers at North Carolina State University is equipped with speakers and vibrating pads to...
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Sounds Bad
University of Southern California's Stefan Scherer and Carnegie Mellon University's Louis-Philippe Morency are seeking to use computers to diagnose depression.
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Researcher's Interface Allows Analysts to Visualize, Interact With Images
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) scientists say they have developed a user interface that facilitates the visualization, navigation, and manipulation...
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Almost Time For Pluto's Close-Up
The pictures coming back from Pluto are still a bit fuzzy. But just wait.
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Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Government Access to Encrypted Communication
An elite group of code makers and code breakers is taking American and British intelligence and law enforcement agencies to task in a new paper that evaluates government...
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How to Stop Virtual Reality From Making You Want to Puke
Stanford University professor Gordon Wetzstein and his colleagues are developing a virtual reality headset that is designed to solve one of the persistent problems...
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Seahorse Tails Could Inspire New Generation of Robots
Clemson University researchers have developed a 3-D printed model based on the square prism of a seahorse tail, as well as a hypothetical cylindrical version. They...
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IBM Makes Lake George World's Smartest Lake
Researchers at IBM, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Fund for Lake George have collaborated to use Internet of Things technology to turn New York State's...
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Leap Motion's Augmented-Reality Computing Looks Stupid Cool
We have a habit of filling new technologies with old ideas.
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Car Dashboards That Act Like Smart Phones Raise Safety Issues
When it comes to dashboard displays that are more like smart phones, two things are clear: Customers want them, and automakers are intent on supplying them.
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Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...
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DARPA Challenge Greatly Propelled Humanoid Robotics
The DARPA Robotics Challenge has significantly advanced the field of humanoid robotics thanks to contributions from academia, including the Worcester Polytechnic...
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Dartmouth Contests Experiment With 'human-Quality,' Computer-Generated Creativity
Dartmouth College is pushing the limits of what artificial intelligence is capable of with a trio of new contests to see if algorithms can produce creative works...
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Cooperative Driving Will Become Common as Data Exchange Between Vehicles Increases
The international Celtic Plus CoMoSeF project recently concluded, yielding a communication system linking cars and drivers with a host of road-side devices that...
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Eu Open Source Software Project Receives Green Light
The European Union's Framework 2020 program has provided 7.6 million euros (U.S. $8.4 million) to help fund an open source software project that will extend the...
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