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It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
Igor Mordatch is IS working to build machines that can carry on a conversation.
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Wi-Fi on Rays of Light: 100 Times Faster, and Never Overloaded
Researchers have developed a Wi-Fi network based on directable infrared light rays.
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Quantum Physics Offers Insights Into Music Expressivity
Researchers have pioneered a new approach to understanding the musical experience by analyzing the vibrato effect using the Filter Diagonalization Method in music...
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X-Rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits
Researchers have used x-rays to peer within commercial integrated circuits and reconstruct them in three dimensions.
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A Scientist and a Supercomputer Re-Create a Tornado
Researchers are using supercomputer simulations to study the structure of tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms.
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Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer
Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley's next...
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How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore's Law
Microprocessors got smaller, faster, and more power-efficient, but as they reach their physical limitations, chip architecture is driving performance gains.
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Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen By 2045
Google director of engineering and ACM Fellow Ray Kurzweil this week predicted the technological singularity will arrive by 2045.
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Ancestryai Algorithm Traces Your Family Tree Back More Than 300 Years
Researchers have developed a family tree artificial intelligence algorithm that looks for connections between 5 million baptisms from the end of the 17th century...
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Why We Need Exascale Computing
Potentially everyone on earth could be affected by the benefits of exascale computing, writes Paul Messina, director of the Argonne National Laboratory's Exascale...
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Robot Eavesdrops on Men and Women to See How Much They Talk
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
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Cineca's Hpc Systems Tackle Italy's Biggest Computing Challenges
Cineca, the leading Italian high-performance computing consortium, manages a supercomputing resource hub to advance innovations in scientific computing.
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So Long Stiffness: Stanford Engineers se Soup Additive to Create a Stretchable Plastic Electrode
Stanford University researchers have demonstrated how to take a brittle plastic and modify it chemically to make it much more flexible, while slightly enhancing...
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Engineers Devise Two-Way Radio on a Single Chip
Researchers say they have developed a method for transmitting and receiving a radio signal on a single chip.
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In Black Box Algorithms We Trust (or Do We?)
Some issues that arise from the use of algorithms may be due to the data they are fed, rather than their black-box nature.
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Hkbu Scholar Invents World's First 'lip Password:' A Patented Double Security System For Identity Authentication
Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University have developed new technology that utilizes a person's lip motions to create a password.
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Is Reliable Artificial Intelligence Possible?
Artificial intelligence technology should be openly available, according to researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in France.
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Nanoscale Logic Machines Go Beyond Binary Computing
An international team of academic researchers has built minuscule logic machines that physically model computational problems and exploit the innate randomness...
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Doubts About Whether Internet Filters Protect Teenagers Online
Researchers surveyed 515 teenagers and their parents about whether they used technical tools to control or manage access to online content.
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