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AI Crossword-Solving Application Could Make Machines Better at Understanding Language
Researchers say they have developed a Web-based machine-language platform that solves crosswords better than existing commercial products.
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At Supreme Court, Debate Over Phone Privacy Has A Long History
Underlying the debate over Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook is the idea that cellphones hold the most...
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Leaf Mysteries Revealed Through the Computer's Eye
A computer-vision method has enabled an international team of researchers to quickly classify leaves and generate vast quantities of new botanical data.
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New Project to Watch Social Media For Signs of Mental Illness
University of Ottawa professor Diana Inkpen will receive $464,100 in funding to research "social Web mining and sentiment analysis for mental illness detection." ...
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Wi-Fi Breadcrumbs Reveal Pedestrian Patterns
The traces people leave as they pass Wi-Fi access points could provide key insights into the comings and goings of pedestrians.
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Quantum Mechanics Is So Weird That Scientists Need AI to Design Experiments
University of Vienna researchers have developed an algorithm that helps design experiments in quantum optics.
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China Is Building a Big Data Platform For 'precrime'
It's "precrime" meets "thoughtcrime."
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Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion
Google’s Go-playing computer system has beaten one of the world’s top players in the first game of a five-game match in Seoul.
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Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
Researchers say a new facial recognition software package is fast, computationally efficient, and robust enough for state-of-the-art results.
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Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges
One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Pentagon Launching Bug Bounty Program
The Pentagon is inviting vetted hackers to the Hack the Pentagon initiative, the U.S. government's first "bug bounty" program.
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U.s. Military Spending Millions to Make Cyborgs a Reality
The U.S. military is spending millions on an advanced implant that would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers.
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A Better 3D Camera With Clear, Graphene Light Detectors
A University of Michigan team is developing a three-dimensional camera that should be smaller than current models while supporting higher resolutions.
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Bad Vibrations: ci Researchers Find Security Breach in 3D Printing Process
Researchers have discovered a significant risk for the three-dimensional printing process, in that the machines emit acoustic signals that contain a lot of information...
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Crispr: Gene Editing Is Just the Beginning
Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out.
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Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans
Richard Socher appeared nervous as he waited for his artificial intelligence program to answer a simple question: "Is the tennis player wearing a cap?"
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Versatile Instrument to Scout for Kuiper Belt Objects
At the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth...
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Is Digital Privacy Becoming a Partisan Issue?
In a Congress where lawmakers have trouble performing even the most basic functions of the legislative branch—funding the government or approving judicial nominees...
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Light-Up Skin Stretches Boundaries of Robotics
Cornell ChronicleCornell University researchers have developed electroluminescent "skin," which stretches to more than six times its original size while still emitting...
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