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Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial with the Potential to Disrupt Everything
Consider three hair-pulling problems: 1 percent of the world's energy is used every year just to produce fertilizer; solar panels aren't powerful enough to provide...
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Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Takes on Chinese Poker Players
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence to compete against six professional Chinese poker players in a 36,000-hand exhibition match in China.
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In the Future, We Will Control Our Mobiles sing Gestures
Researchers are developing a next-generation interface that will enable people to interact with mobile devices using gestures.
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Algorithm and Rhyme
San Jose State University professor Margareta Ackerman has developed an artificial intelligence-based system designed to assist musicians in songwriting.
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Few Keep Track of Their Personal Data on the Net
A study found that few users understand how their personal data are compiled and stored on the Internet.
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AI Player Alphago to Play Chinese Go Champion
DeepMind's Go-playing artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May will play against top Chinese Go player Ke Jie in a three-game match in China.
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23andme Given Green Light to Sell Dna Tests For 10 Diseases
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home genetic test that can help to determine a person's risk of developing certain diseases....
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Tim Berners-Lee: Selling Private Citizens' Browsing Data Is 'disgusting'
Sir Tim Berners-Lee says he is appalled by the Trump administration's decision to dismantle net neutrality and let Internet service providers sell customers' browsing...
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Chinese Scientists Engineer Flexible, Faster-Swimming Robot
Chinese researchers have developed a flexible, remote-controlled robotic ray that can swim through water nearly twice as fast as previous robo-swimmers without...
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Learning to Think Like a Computer
The number of computer science majors has more than doubled since 2011, according to the Computing Research Association.
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How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry
Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel...
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Google's Video AI Was Tricked Into Thinking a Video About Apes Was About Spaghetti
Researchers have successfully tricked Google's Cloud Video Intelligence application programming interface into identifying a video about gorillas as one dealing...
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Stanford Researchers Create Deep Learning Algorithm That Could Boost Drug Development
A new type of deep learning, known as one-shot learning, could be used to help drug development because it only requires a small number of data points.
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Apprenticeship Emerging To Fill Skills Gaps
New approaches to apprenticeship aim to provide talented, if not traditionally trained, computing professionals.
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Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways
Wei Xu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is leading the development of visualization tools for analyzing large and varied datasets...
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Innovative Software Converts Wi-Fi Data Into Energy Savings
New software uses Wi-Fi to determine the number of building occupants and adjusts ventilation accordingly, which can save energy without sacrificing air quality...
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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Learning to Think Like a Computer
In "The Beauty and Joy of Computing," the course he helped conceive for nonmajors at the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Garcia explains an all-important...
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Virginia Tech Researchers: Android Apps Can Conspire to Mine Information From Your Smartphone
Researchers say they have conducted the first-ever large-scale systematic study of how the trusty applications on Android phones are able to talk to one another...
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