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These ­niversities Are Training the World's Top Coders
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These ­niversities Are Training the World's Top Coders

The three best coders in the world come from the Russian ITMO University, China's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School, and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science...

Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men
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Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men

New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.

Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors
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Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors

Researchers used a combination of software, radar, and other sensors to develop a swarm of autonomous rigid hull inflatable boats and other small boats that can...

How Do We Keep Gps Safe From Sabotage?
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How Do We Keep Gps Safe From Sabotage?

Stanford University professor Per Enge is working to combat potential threats to autonomous navigation systems.

Artificial Intelligence to Predict Odors
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Artificial Intelligence to Predict Odors

Researchers are working on the Computer Linguistics for Olfaction project to develop an application that can predict which molecule structures will produce or suppress...

­.n. Opens Formal Discussions on AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons, Could Ban 'killer Robots'
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­.n. Opens Formal Discussions on AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons, Could Ban 'killer Robots'

Leaders at the United Nations in Geneva just agreed to officially discuss guidelines for the design, development, and engineering of autonomous weapons. Here's...

Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways
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Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways

ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...

Nasa Releases New Eye-Popping View of Carbon Dioxide
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Nasa Releases New Eye-Popping View of Carbon Dioxide

A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide...

Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer
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Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer

Finally, someone to make cities’ technology relevant.

­.s. Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery
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­.s. Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery

The U.S. timeline for achieving exascale supercomputer performance will be accelerated by one year.

Quake-Detection App Captured Nearly 400 Temblors Worldwide
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Quake-Detection App Captured Nearly 400 Temblors Worldwide

The MyShake app has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since it was made available for download in February.

This Flying Robot Is the Newest Expert Inspecting Your City's Bridges
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This Flying Robot Is the Newest Expert Inspecting Your City's Bridges

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Northeastern University have developed a drone that can create a high-resolution three-dimensional model of...

Making Big Data Manageable
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Making Big Data Manageable

Researchers presented a new coreset-generation technique for handling big data at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona, Spain.

California to Regulate Energy ­se of Desktop Computers and Monitors
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California to Regulate Energy ­se of Desktop Computers and Monitors

The California Energy Commission on Wednesday agreed to pass new regulations for energy efficiency in desktop computers and monitors.

Tech Giants Open Virtual Worlds to Bevy of AI Programs
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Tech Giants Open Virtual Worlds to Bevy of AI Programs

The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.

'i'm Here to Help,' Trump Tells Tech Executives at Meeting
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'i'm Here to Help,' Trump Tells Tech Executives at Meeting

The meeting between President-elect Donald J. Trump and the nation’s tech elite was hyped as something out of “The Apprentice”: The new boss tells his minions to...

Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in Vr
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Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in Vr

Let a thousand virtual worlds rain down from the clouds. Or rather, the cloud.

Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: Nasa
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Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: Nasa

As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean—but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task.

Paving the Way For Light-Based Circuits
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Paving the Way For Light-Based Circuits

Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea have developed three key components for building circuits that work with light instead of electrons.

Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network
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Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network

Researchers at Tomsk State University in Russia have developed a universal mathematical approach to queuing theory that can be used to eliminate lines in shops...
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