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Why We’re a Long Way From Computers That Really Work Like the Human Brain
Significant work remains to be done before computers designed to simulate the human brain achieves that goal.
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Research Shows Precisely Which Strategies Help Players Win Team-Oriented Video Games
A new technique can determine which strategies give players an advantage at multi-player, real-time strategy games.
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Disney Researchers se Automated Analysis to Find Weakness in Soccer Coaching Strategy
Researchers applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of professional soccer have discovered a strategic error often made by coaches of visiting teams.
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Crowdsourcing Weather Using Smartphone Batteries
A team of app developers and weather experts have created a system that crowdsources hundreds of thousands of smartphone temperature readings.
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Here's What You Find When You Scan the Entire Internet in an Hour
Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process.
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Nasa Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity...
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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
In a terrific paper just presented at the premier international conference on artificial intelligence, Hector Levesque, a University of Toronto computer scientist...
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It’s Time to Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
A bill working its way through Congress is an opportunity to update an unfair, outmoded cybersecurity law
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
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A New 'dawn' in Exchanges' War on Hackers
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...
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Google Is Preparing For Screenless Computers
Google aims to fulfill its vision of a future in which people's primary interaction with computers is vocal by enabling voice commands in all of its products, and...
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Medical Hacking Poses a Terrifying Threat, in Theory
In the world of hypothetical cybercrime, not much is scarier than the hacked medical device.
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Nasa Details Software Algorithm That Could Precisely Guide Future Spacecraft Landings
Researchers at the NASA are developing algorithms designed to land spacecraft safely. One of the key algorithms under development is designed to incorporate a...
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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data
A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space.
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Researchers Develop Acoustic-Based Data Transfer System For Phones
Microsoft researchers have a system that offers near-field communications-like capabilities without requiring dedicated wireless hardware. The system uses sound...
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Nsa Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds
The U.S. National Security Agency has violated privacy rules or overreached its authority thousands of times annually since 2008, primarily through unauthorized...
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Researchers Building a Computer Chip Based on the Human Brain
Boise State University researchers are developing a chip with a computing architecture resembling the human brain.
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.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...
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Researchers se Augmented Reality to Coach Train Drivers
Central University of Queensland researchers are improving train driving simulations with augmented reality in order to facilitate drivers' skills development....
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