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Not Your Father's Analog Computer
Significant work is underway in analog computing in the context of machine learning, machine intelligence, and biomimetic circuits.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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AI Is Dreaming p New Kinds of Video Games
Angelina is an artificial intelligence that can imagine new video games from scratch, which has produced hundreds of experimental games since 2011.
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Dogs Get the Hollywood Treatment to Make Animal Animations More Realistic
Researchers are developing a new technique that will use human movements to drive a four-legged animated animal character.
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Child-Proofing the Internet of Things
Researchers are studying how children can maintain their safety and privacy as they use the Internet of Things.
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Algorithms Can Determine a Neighborhood's Political Leanings By Its Cars
Researchers at Stanford University have developed algorithms that can determine where a neighborhood's political allegiances lie by analyzing the cars on its streets...
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Robots Could Soon Replace Nearly a Third of the U.s. Workforce
The growth of automation will force as many as 70 million workers in the U.S. to find new jobs by 2030, according to a new McKinsey Global Institute study.
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The Genesis of Kuri, the Friendly Home Robot
Over the course of thousands of years, dogs have evolved alongside humans to be awesome.
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Hades Creates Alternate Reality to Mislead Hackers
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an alternative reality that tells hackers what they want to believe.
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Scientists Release a How-To For Building a Smartphone Microscope
Researchers have released an open source dataset offering instructions to anyone interested in building their own smartphone microscope.
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Computer Modeling Offers Insight Into What Causes Sudden Cardiac Death
A new computer model replicates the biological activity within the heart that precedes sudden cardiac death.
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Microwave-Based Test Method Can Help Keep 3D Chip Designers' Eyes Open
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new way to test multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips.
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A Taste of the Virtual
Consumers are sampling virtual reality systems and software, without needing to buy them.
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Cracking Genomic Codes With the Cloud
A team at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has developed a machine-learning library that analyzes genomic data in real time...
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Artificial Muscles Give Soft Robots Superpowers
Researchers have developed origami-inspired muscles that strengthen soft robots, enabling them to lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight using air or water...
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Bilingual--Without a Dictionary
Researchers in Spain and Facebook have separately developed unsupervised machine-learning techniques for teaching neural networks to translate between languages...
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Pipefish Robot Patrols City Pipes to Detect nderground Water Leaks
PipeFish is an autonomous robot that can quickly and inexpensively detect damage in municipal water pipes.
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