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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers...
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Stanford Researchers Find Intriguing Clues About Obesity By Counting Steps Via Smartphones
Stanford University researchers found that in countries with little obesity, people mostly walked a similar amount per day.
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a Pioneers More Effective Control For Border Patrol
Researchers are developing a framework for border surveillance that uses artificial intelligence to integrate data from different sources and respond in real time...
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AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust Between Humans and Computers
Researchers have received a $7.55-million grant to find new ways to have artificial intelligence explain its decision-making process to human users.
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Face Scans For S Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step...
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A Computer That Reads Body Language
Researchers have developed a computer capable of understanding body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time.
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Web Inventor rges Support For Net Neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, urged people to show support for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules that are likely to be...
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11,000 Girls Compete in International Mobile App Challenge
Girls ages 10-18 from around the world are competing in the Technovation Challenge, a global effort to learn and apply technology to try to solve problems in their...
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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w's Lip-Syncing Obama Demonstrates New Technique to Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video
University of Washington researchers have developed a system that can take audio clips from one speech and sync them with video clips from another.
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Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix 'unruly' Gridlock
India's Gridlock Hackathon aims to find solutions to the congested roads that cost the economy billions of dollars.
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Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.
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Fighting Tick-Borne Disease With Computer Science
Researchers are using new data on ticks in the southeastern U.S. to build mathematical models of how the grasses, wildlife, and ticks respond to different conditions...
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Study Finds 'smart' Transformers Could Make Reliable Smart Grid a Reality
North Carolina State University researchers are developing smart solid-state transformers that could be used to make a stable, reliable smart grid.
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Adding Humanity to Smart Machines
A chat with former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov about his new book, machine intelligence, and human creativity.
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International Group Aims to Protect the Core of the Public Internet
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace has established a research group to protect the public Internet's core and critical infrastructure.
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New 3D Chip Combines Computing and Data Storage
A new computer chip integrates carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory cells.
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Artificial Intelligence-Based System Warns When a Gun Appears in a Video
A new artificial intelligence program automatically detects in real time when a subject in a video draws a gun.
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