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Smaller Chips May Depend on Vacuum Tube Technology
Vacuum tubes may enjoy a resurgence as computer chips continue to shrink.
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A Smartphone to Help Keep the Elderly Safe
A team of researchers at Rutgers University is developing a smartphone app that could help keep senior citizens from falling.
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Software Turns Webcams Into Eye Trackers
Brown University researchers have created software designed to help website owners and developers determine which parts of a Web page are attracting users' eyes...
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Google Developing Panic Button to Kill Rogue AI
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and Oxford University are collaborating to create a panic button to interrupt a potentially rogue artificial intelligence agent...
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CRISPR Gene-Editing System nleashed on RNA
Researchers who discovered a molecular "scissors" for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA.
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Bill Gates Claims 'ai Dream Is Finally Arriving'--and Says Machines Will Outsmart Humans in Some Areas Within a Decade
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the progress of artificial intelligence ensures machines will be able to outclass humans in certain knowledge areas within...
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Pittsburgh Roads Wired With 'talking' Traffic Signals
Researchers have installed dedicated short-range communication radios at 35 intersections in Bloomfield and Marshall, PA.
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Internet Trends 2016 Code Conference
The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth.
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Pc Hardware Is Physically Leaking Your Encryption Keys
Your computer has an aura. That sentence causes me actual physical pain to type, but there's not really a better way to put it—whether you're surfing really fucked...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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IBM Watson's Creative Director on Amazon Echo and How AI Can Save Lives
In an interview, Maya Weinstein, creative director at IBM Watson, discusses artificial intelligence assistants and how the technology can help save lives.
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A Car's Computer Can 'fingerprint' You in Minutes Based on How You Drive
Data collected from a car's internal computer network, or its CAN bus, can identify its driver based on driving style, a new study has found.
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A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa
Sidy Ndao aims to advance science, technology, engineering, and math skills in West Africa by organizing events such as the Pan-African Robotics Competition.
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Google nveils 'artificial Creativity'
Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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Study of 1 Million Sites Shows Just How Closely We're Watched
The web is watching you. Chunks of code hide inside every website, tracking your online behaviour.
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Doubling Down on Schrodinger's Cat
A team of Yale University researchers has created a more exotic version of the classic Schrodinger's cat paradox.
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Jumproach Is a Robotic Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect
Researchers say they have developed a new kind of jumping mechanism for robots that has the potential to scale from tiny hops to a catapult launch.
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