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This Sculpture Was Designed and 3-D Printed By an AI Artist
Information Technology University of Copenhagen professor Joel Lehman and colleagues have created an artificial intelligence that can design and generate physical...
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Malware Can Steal Data From Air-Gapped Devices via Fans
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev report data can be stolen from an air-gapped computer using the computer's fan to a nearby mobile phone equipped...
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Edward Snowden Denounces Russia's New 'big Brother' Surveillance Bill
Edward Snowden has been in exile in Russia since 2013, when he leaked classified documents about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs.
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Closing in on Jupiter
Last Friday (6/24), at exactly 9:57 and 48 seconds a.m. PDT, NASA's Juno spacecraft was 5.5 million miles (8.9 million kilometers) from its July 4th appointment...
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Expansion of Early niverse Modelled in nprecedented Detail
For the first time, cosmologists have used the full power of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to perform detailed calculations of the Universe's evolution...
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Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be worsening inequality, given the biases being embedded within the underlying machine-learning algorithms, says Kate Crawford,...
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The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
The World Economic Forum has published its annual list of 2016's breakthrough technologies, with a specific focus on closing the gaps in investment and regulation...
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Data Centers Are No Longer The Energy Hogs They Once Were
Efforts by some of the world's largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon to reduce the amount of energy their data centers consume is now bearing...
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Mapping Online Hate Speech
Researchers from the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University analyzed more than 13,000 comments made on 1,055 Facebook pages around the time of Ethiopia's...
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This Algorithm Can Steal Any Celebrity's Haircut
Postdoctoral student Menglei Chai and collaborators at Zhejiang University can create three-dimensional models of any hairstyle, solely from a photo.
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Computing as a Force For Social Good
The Computing Community Consortium recently organized a two-day symposium focused on whether research-based innovations in computing could become a catalyst for...
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First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from S Panel
CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.
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Bletchley Park in 360: See Inside Britain's Enigma-Breaking Hq
In a special video production, CNET takes you inside the hallowed halls of Bletchley Park, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, England where the Enigma code was...
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How Google Deepmind's Ant Soccer Skills Can Help Improve Your Search Results
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence is learning to navigate thee-dimensional environments and games, including a soccer game played as a virtual ant.
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How Well Do Facial Recognition Algorithms Cope With a Million Strangers?
The MegaFace Challenge aims to assess the performance of face-recognition algorithms at the million-person scale.
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Augmented Eternity: Scientists Aim to Let S Speak From Beyond the Grave
Augmented eternity, the posthumous preservation of a person's knowledge, beliefs, and personality, could be feasible within 15 to 25 years.
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No Place For the Old? Is Software Development a Young Person's Game?
Statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest software developers tend to be under 30.
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Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
Most people believe self-driving vehicles should ultimately put their passengers' lives first, according to a new study.
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