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New Robots Can See Into Their Future
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New Robots Can See Into Their Future

Visual foresight is a new learning technology enabling robots to foresee the outcome of their actions..

Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement
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Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement

Online students who use innovative robots feel more engaged and connected to the instructor and students in the classroom.

­h Manoa Field Testing Mobile App For Visually Impaired at Yosemite National Park
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­h Manoa Field Testing Mobile App For Visually Impaired at Yosemite National Park

Researchers recently conducted a user test of the UniD mobile app, which is designed to make brochures at national parks accessible to the visually impaired.

In Pursuit of an Artificial Brain
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In Pursuit of an Artificial Brain

Researchers are creating artificial life to take thinking beyond the human realm; the approach could redefine artificial intelligence.

More Realistic Ar Display Places Digital Images Among Real Objects
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More Realistic Ar Display Places Digital Images Among Real Objects

A prototype augmented reality display can show a virtual image that both blocks real-world objects sitting behind it and can itself be blocked by other real-world...

Butterfly Pattern Emerges From Quantum Simulation
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Butterfly Pattern Emerges From Quantum Simulation

Researchers have simulated the energy spectrum predicted for two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field, known as the Hofstadter butterfly.

Making AI 'intentional'
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Making AI 'intentional'

A new game-playing artificial intelligence program is imbued with social reasoning and "intentionality."

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions
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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions

By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages...

How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street
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How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street

It was AI versus Warren Buffett.

The ­ltimate Defense Against Hackers May Be Just a Few Atoms Thick
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The ­ltimate Defense Against Hackers May Be Just a Few Atoms Thick

A new class of unclonable cybersecurity primitives has been made from a low-cost nanomaterial with the highest possible level of structural randomness.

Helping Hands Guide Robots as They Learn
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Helping Hands Guide Robots as They Learn

A new program guides robots toward the most helpful ways to collaborate on tasks, with the goal of simplifying the training of robots to work efficiently with humans...

Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome
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Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome

Google has released an artificial intelligence tool that uses gene sequencing data to build a more accurate genomic model.

The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies
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The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies

Quantum computing could fundamentally break cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and throw markets into turmoil.  

Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says. 
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Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says. 

The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition...

Global Mosquito-Sensing Network Being Built ­sing Smartphones
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Global Mosquito-Sensing Network Being Built ­sing Smartphones

MozzWear is a low-cost smartphone sensor system that can identify and monitor mosquito populations.

Squeezing Light Into a Tiny Channel Brings Optical Computing a Step Closer
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Squeezing Light Into a Tiny Channel Brings Optical Computing a Step Closer

Researchers have paved the way for computers based on light rather than electronics.

New Research Creates a Computer Chip That Emulates Human Cognition
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New Research Creates a Computer Chip That Emulates Human Cognition

Researchers have developed a chip that contains about 5.4 billion transistors and 1 million "neurons" that communicate via 256 million "synapses."

Voyager 1 Fires ­p Thrusters After 37 Years
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Voyager 1 Fires ­p Thrusters After 37 Years

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...

Supercomputing Poised For a Massive Speed Boost
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Supercomputing Poised For a Massive Speed Boost

At the end of July, workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began filling up a cavernous room with the makings of a computational behemoth: row...

­ltrasound Could Offer Noninvasive Treatment For Parkinson's and Depression
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­ltrasound Could Offer Noninvasive Treatment For Parkinson's and Depression

A macaque monkey sat in front of a computer. A yellow square—the target—appeared in the periphery on the left side of the screen. After a few seconds delay, a second...
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