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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can

Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.

Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse
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Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse

Microsoft is embarking on a major upgrade of its Azure systems.

Selfie With a View on 'cybernetics and Systems Analysis'
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Selfie With a View on 'cybernetics and Systems Analysis'

Dmitry Zaitsev sacrifices his ego to expose computer science achievements in Ukraine.

2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet Now Official Standards
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2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet Now Official Standards

New Ethernet standards are now finalized, making existing cabling as much as five time faster.

Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
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Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing

Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles's leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might...

Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
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Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices

As we surf from website to website, we are being tracked—that's not news. What is news, revealed in a recent paper by researchers at Princeton University, is that...

Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders

Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.  

Ibm and Mit Partner ­p to Create AI That ­nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do
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Ibm and Mit Partner ­p to Create AI That ­nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do

The new IBM-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension will research computer vision and audition.  

Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru
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Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru

Shantenu Jha and the Rutgers Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory team work at the intersection of computing and science.

The New Face of Biometrics
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The New Face of Biometrics

Advances in biometric authentication are finally pushing the technology into the mainstream.

A New 3d Viewer For Improved Digital Geoscience Mapping
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A New 3d Viewer For Improved Digital Geoscience Mapping

Researchers from Norway and the U.K. have collaborated on software designed for virtual model interpretation and visualization.

Hubble: Possible Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Hubble: Possible Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Building a Bionic Spine
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Building a Bionic Spine

Australian neurologist Tom Oxley was on vacation in the US in November 2010 when he decided to do a bit of work.

Daring Chinese Telescope Is Poised to Transform Astronomy
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Daring Chinese Telescope Is Poised to Transform Astronomy

Set in a remote natural depression in the mountainous region of Guizhou, China, the world's largest single-dish telescope is on the brink of sparking a new era...

Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its ­nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'
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Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its ­nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'

Cornell Tech researchers have shown they can reverse-engineer machine-learning algorithms, essentially stealing artificial intelligence products and using them...

New Language Expands on Google's Go
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New Language Expands on Google's Go

Polish developer Marcin Wrochniak has introduced Have, a computer language that transpiles to and expands on Google's Go.

Germany to Create World's First Highway Code For Driverless Cars
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Germany to Create World's First Highway Code For Driverless Cars

The first legal framework for autonomous vehicles was outlined in a recently proposed bill in Germany governing how such cars perform in potentially deadly crashes...

Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different
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Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different

Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf said he would change a few things about the Internet's creation if he could do it over again...

Researchers Restore First-Ever Computer Music Recording Generated on Alan Turing's Computer
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Researchers Restore First-Ever Computer Music Recording Generated on Alan Turing's Computer

Researchers from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have restored the first recording of computer-generated music.  

A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
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A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the rest of the globe?
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