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Cmu, Pitt Brain Imaging Science Identifies Individuals With Suicidal Thoughts
Researchers have developed an approach to identify suicidal individuals by analyzing changes in how their brains represent concepts such as death, cruelty, and...
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her...
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Nustar Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.
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Sharing Secrets (without Giving Them Away)
Secure multiparty computation protects privacy while sharing vital data.
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There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study
A study by neuroscientists offers insights into whether computers may become conscious by deconstructing consciousness into three categories.
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How Russian Trolls Lie Their Way to the Top of Your News Feed
Going viral used to be harmless.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams of Data
Researchers have created a near-perfect streaming algorithm that operates by recalling only enough of what it has seen to relate what it has observed most often...
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Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants
Researchers have developed a method of assessing a preterm infant's brain maturity from an electroencephalogram.
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What Virtual Reality Can Teach a Driverless Car
Major companies are testing autonomous car software within virtual reality simulations of cities.
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Singapore Teaches Its Seniors to Code
Libraries in Singapore are hosting special versions of the global Hour of Code movement to help seniors learn how to program in the Swift language.
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Women and Robots, 'there's Just No Trust'
Researchers found women were much less likely than men to trust humanoid machines.
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Small Asteroid or Comet 'visits' from Beyond the Solar System
A small, recently discovered asteroid—or perhaps a comet&mdsah;appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy...
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Facebook’s Head of AI Wants US to Stop Using the Terminator to Talk About AI
Yann LeCun chats about super-intelligent artificial intelligence and the future of virtual assistants.
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What's the Future of Programming? The Answer Lies in Functional Languages
Simon Peyton Jones describes functional programming languages like Haskell as a proving ground where programmers can test new ideas.
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Alan Turing: How His niversal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
Alan Turing is one of the great pioneers of the digital age, establishing the mathematical foundations of computing and using electromechanical digital machines...
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sing Robots in Patient Rehabilitation
Researchers conducted a study of user preferences as an initial step toward developing an interactive movement rehabilitation protocol.
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Secure Payment Without Leaving a Trace
Researchers in Germany have developed a secure system for making online payments that that works anonymously and prevents misuse.
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Old Phones Get New Life in High-Powered Computer Servers
Researchers at Princeton University have demonstrated that old smartphones can be used to build computer servers at much lower cost than high-end servers.
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