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Are Your Tweets Feeling Well?
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted a study to understand patterns of how people behave differently on social media when they are ill...
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DARPA Assured Autonomy Seeks to Guarantee Safety of Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems
Researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have launched a new research program that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn...
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Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon
Backscattering could eventually harness sufficient energy to power small devices.
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sing Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
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Tracing the Sources of Today's Russian cyberthreat
Beyond carrying all of our phone, text and internet communications, cyberspace is an active battleground, with cybercriminals, government agents and even military...
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Google's New AI Learns By Baking Tasty Machine Learning Cookies
Google Vizier is an artificial intelligence system that automatically tunes other artificial intelligence programs.
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Spotting a Social Bot Might Be Harder Than You Think
Although savvy Internet users might think they can easily identify a social media bot, there are tricks a "bot army master" can use to make the accounts seem more...
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AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
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Smart Computers
Researchers at the University of Freiburg's excellence cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools in Germany are showing how ideas from computer science could revolutionize...
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Follow the Bitcoin to Find Victims of Human Trafficking
Researchers say they have developed the first automated techniques to identify ads potentially tied to human trafficking rings and link them to public information...
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Computers Will Stitch Together First-Ever Megamovie of Solar Eclipse
Researchers are working on the "Eclipse Megamovie" project, in which volunteers take photos of the solar eclipse's path across the U.S. and upload the images to...
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Inside the Fighter Jet of the Future Where AI Is the Pilot
I'm in the cockpit of a Typhoon fighter jet. It's an overwhelming sea of buttons, twiddly knobs and square screens displaying various diagrams and measurements....
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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Killer Robots: World’s Top AI and Robotics Companies Urge United Nations to Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons
An open letter by leaders of leading robotics and artificial intelligence companies is released as the United Nations delays meeting to discuss the robot arms race...
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E-Zpass Could Kickstart Smart Cities
Everyone likes the idea of a smart city. Traffic lights would automatically adjust to optimize traffic flow, you could find parking spaces without circling for...
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Ap Computer Science Draws in More Girls, Minorities
More young women took an Advanced Placement computer science exam in 2016 than in 2007 through 2013 combined, mainly because of the College Board's new AP CS Principles...
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Wsu Researchers Receive $2.3m to Improve .s. Power Grid Design
Researchers at Washington State University recently received a $2.3-million U.S. Department of Energy grant to more efficiently distribute power and better manage...
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The Imperfect Crime: How the Wannacry Hackers Could Get Nabbed
When hackers unleashed the WannaCry "ransomware" in mid-May, not only did they wreak havoc on European hospitals, telecoms and railways, they also made off with...
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