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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Twitter Bans Russian Government-Owned News Sites Rt and Sputnik from Buying Ads
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
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Inspired By Brain's Visual Cortex, New AI tterly Wrecks Captcha Security
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...
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Crispr Hacks Enable Pinpoint Repairs to Genome
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...
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Researchers Demonstrate 'mind-Reading' Brain-Decoding Tech
Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for decoding what the brain is seeing.
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Facebook Research Automatically Creates an Avatar From a Photo
A new machine-learning system can automatically creating the best possible avatar of a person's face from a photo by using a customized emoji generator.
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Two Ornl-Led Research Teams Receive $10.5 Million to Advance Quantum Computing For Scientific Applications
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded two research teams more than $10 million to assess the feasibility of quantum architectures in addressing big science...
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Robots Won't Take Away Our Jobs, or They Will and It Will Be 'liberating,' Profs Say
Cornell University professor Guy Hoffman called the notion of losing all professions to robots delusional.
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How High Can High-Rises Go?
Digital technologies and new and better materials have stretched the boundaries of building design.
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Resistive Memory Components the Computer Industry Can't Resist
Researchers have developed new memristor devices that last 1 trillion cycles, an achievement they say far surpasses the endurance of commercial flash memories for...
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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These Neurons Are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them in 3-D
For patients with epilepsy, or cancerous brain lesions, sometimes the only way to forward is down.
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Higgs Boson ncovered By Quantum Algorithm on D-Wave Machine
Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of...
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Bloated Browser Functionality Presents nnecessary Security, Privacy Risks
Researchers have identified browser functionalities that are rarely used or needed by Websites, but which pose security and privacy risks.
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Preservation For the (digital) Ages
Researchers are working to enhance the preservation of digital humanities databases.
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Machine Learning sed to Predict Earthquakes in a Lab Setting
Researchers say they have trained a machine-learning algorithm to predict future seismic events.
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Focus Computer Science Funding on Teacher Training, Code.org Founder Says
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi says every dollar committed to computer science education should be channeled into teacher training.
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U.s. Should Invest More in Global Quantum Race, Researchers Tell Congressional Committee
Researchers told the U.S. House Science Committee that more federal funding is required to train specialists and advance real-world quantum computing applications...
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Like Magic: The Tech That Goes Into Making Money Harder to Fake
In 2005, shortly after earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sam Cape was looking for work online when he came across a cryptic help...
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