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Machine Speak: Left to Their Own Devices, Computers Can Figure it Out
Researchers are using new machine learning techniques to teach electronic devices to share data and communicate with other machines without human assistance.
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Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
A new Web browser brings order to complex searches in a way not possible with conventional tabbed browsing.
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European Commission unveils €1.5 Billion AI Funding
The European Commission will be investing an extra €1.5 billion in artificial intelligence through 2020 under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. ...
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Researchers 3D-Print Electronics, Cells Directly on Skin
University of Minnesota researchers have printed electronics on a real hand for the first time.
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AI to Find Optimal Electric Car Recharge Point Locations
A new artificial intelligence tool can determine the best locations for electric car charging stations.
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The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...
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Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals
The parallel existence of an intelligent species closely related to us has long fascinated scientists and the public alike.
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.S. Army Makes a Virtual North Korea for Training
The U.S. Army is creating a virtual duplicate of our planet in which to drill troops.
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Move Over, Tupac! Life-Size Holograms Set to Revolutionize Videoconferencing
Researchers have developed the first truly holographic videoconferencing system, allowing users in different locations to appear before one another life-size and...
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CM Researchers Create Self-Folding Origami, Try for Pasta That Shapes as it Cooks
Researchers have created origami that folds itself.
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Scientists Plan European AI Hub to Compete With .S.
Europe's leading scientists have crafted plans for a multinational European institute for artificial intelligence research.
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Change Blindness: Mobile Phone Users Miss Vital Information
A new study has found that the way mobile phone users interact with their devices could result in a phenomenon known as "change blindness."
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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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niverse's First Moments Mimicked with ltracool Atoms
Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is...
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Some Startups se Fake Data to Train AI
Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat's selfie filters—hold...
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Applying Network Analysis to Natural History
Researchers are using network analysis techniques popularized through social media applications to discover patterns in Earth's natural history.
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A First for Quantum Physics: Electron Orbitals Manipulated in Diamonds
Researchers have demonstrated a technique for engineering optical properties of defects in diamonds, providing a method of storing information that could be used...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Future Wearable Device Could Tell How We Power Human Movement
A new technology could one day help tell whether tendon injuries are sufficiently healed for people to resume normal activities.
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