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New Algorithm Can Create Movies From Just a Few Snippets of Text
A new algorithm creates videos from text snippets.
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Researchers Find Tweeting in Cities Lower Than Expected
Researchers at the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Lab say they have found that fewer people tweet per capita from larger cities than in smaller ones...
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Snake-Inspired Robot Uses Kirigami to Move
Researchers have developed a soft robot without any rigid components that moves like a snake.
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Research Team Uncovers Hidden Details in Picasso Blue Period Painting
Researchers used multiple modes of light to reveal hidden details in a painting by Pablo Picasso during his Blue Period.
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...
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Wavy Transistors That Vertically Gain Width Without Increasing Their On-Chip Footprint For Future Flexible Displays
Researchers say they have developed a unique transistor architecture that improves the performance of display circuitry in next-generation mobile electronics.
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People Don't Trust Driverless Cars. Researchers Are Trying to Change That
Industrial and academic researchers are attempting to overcome consumers' distrust of autonomous vehicles.
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Revolutionizing Electronics sing Kirigami
Researchers in Japan have developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using Kirigami designs, which enables the device to follow the contours of deformable biological...
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Bilingual--Without a Dictionary
Researchers in Spain and Facebook have separately developed unsupervised machine-learning techniques for teaching neural networks to translate between languages...
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Scientists Have Built a 'hallucination Machine' For a Drug-Free Brain Trip
Researchers say they can replicate hallucinatory experiences by combining virtual reality technology and Google's Deep Dream neural network system into a "Hallucination...
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Armed With Tough Computer Chips, Scientists Are Ready to Return to the Hell of Venus
Robot missions to Venus could become routine within the next decade by sending exploratory probes with highly durable computer chips that can handle the planet's...
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2017 Aaas Fellows Recognized For Advancing Science
The 2017 AAAS Fellows will be honored at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, Feb. 15-19, 2018.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.
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New Robobee Flies, Dives, Swims, and Explodes Out of the Water
The latest generation of RoboBee is an aerial-to-aquatic robot that is 1,000 times lighter than any previous model.
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There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study
A study by neuroscientists offers insights into whether computers may become conscious by deconstructing consciousness into three categories.
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Filling the Pipeline For Computer Science Teachers
A shortage of computer science teachers is impeding state and local educators' adoption of new computer science mandates for students.
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Reducing the Massive Energy Appetite of Data Centers
Researchers are developing new chips and approaches to reduce the power consumption of data centers, which accounted for about one-fiftieth of all U.S. electricity...
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Artificial Intelligence Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology used artificial intelligence to generate a program that successfully guessed 27 percent of the passwords from more...
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Stretchy Artificial 'skin' Could Give Robots a Sense of Touch
Rubberized electronics and sensors that function normally when stretched up to half of their length could operate as artificial skin on robots.
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