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Cars Could Soon Negotiate Smart Intersections Without Ever Having to Stop
Researchers have developed a model of a system in which smart cars do not have to stop at red lights at intersections.
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Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels
Swiveling seats? Movies projected across the windshield? Social media feeds on the windows?
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Github Survey: Open Source Is Popular, Plagued By Poor Docs and Rude People
A new GitHub survey found open source development's popularity is tempered by poor documentation and provocation, mainly rudeness, among developers.
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ta-Led Interdisciplinary Team to Construct Computer Program to Identify Fake News
Researchers say they are developing computer tools to detect social bots within the World Wide Web that create and spread fake news.
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Face Recognition System 'k-Eye' Presented By Kaist
Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip that runs artificial intelligence algorithms using ultra-low power.
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Agencies 'flying Blind' Without More Data
U.S. government agencies require better tools and datasets to assess how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will impact the private-sector...
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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Graphene Transistor Could Mean Computers That Are 1,000 Times Faster
A new graphene-based transistor could someday be used in computers that are 1,000 times faster and use one-100th of the power of conventional computer systems. ...
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Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research on social networks.
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Why It's Important For the Tech Industry to Get More Young Girls Interested in STEM
Jewelbots CEO Sara Chipps says the de-socialization of girls from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines starts early.
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Hkbu Invention Detects and Alerts Sleepy Drivers
Researchers have developed a system that detects sleepy drivers and alerts them using a smartphone.
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A School District Is Building a Diy Broadband Network
The Albemarle County, VA, school district is building its own broadband network.
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'
Researchers have developed a new approach to deep-learning computer systems that uses light instead of electricity.
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tsa Professor Wins $450,000 Nsf Grant to Develop Artificial Intelligence That Can Detect Computer System Faults
A University of Texas at San Antonio professor has received a $450,000 grant to develop a hardware-based AI system for detecting software bugs and security attacks...
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...
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Israel's Quantum Leap
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Quantum Information Science Center has received a $2.1-million government contract to construct a national quantum communications...
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