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Some Artists Found a Lifeline Selling NFTs. Others Worry It's a Trap
Artists are jumping into a market that will pay thousands for their work. But they're running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype.
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Video Games Are Causing a National Crisis in South Korea
The World Health Organization's decision in May 2019 to add "gaming disorder" to its official catalog of illnesses has been called a vindication by some, though...
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Russia Wants to Cut Itself Off from the Global Internet. Here's What that Really Means.
In the next two weeks, Russia is planning to attempt something no other country has tried before. It's going to test whether it can disconnect from the rest of...
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Machine Vision Can Create Harry Potter-Style Photos for Muggles
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
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AI Generates New Doom Levels for Humans to Play
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy have found it is possible to have a deep learning algorithm create compelling new game levels in Doom...
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AI Is Dreaming p New Kinds of Video Games
Angelina is an artificial intelligence that can imagine new video games from scratch, which has produced hundreds of experimental games since 2011.
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This Inquisitive AI Will Kick Your Butt at Battleship
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can skillfully play a Battleship-like game by determining how to ask questions as efficiently as possible...
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Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Starcraft--For Now
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
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Building Tomorrow's Robots
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...
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Humans Do Dumb Things with Smart Cities
New York City wants to make Wi-Fi available to anyone who walks its streets. But Gotham is finding out the hard way that free and open Internet access is ripe for...
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Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot By Playing Grand Theft Auto
Several research groups are using the "Grand Theft Auto" video game to educate algorithms with potential application to self-driving vehicle navigation.
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Significant virtual reality milestones are expected this year.
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Four Important Things to Expect in Virtual Reality in 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...
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Google Aims to Make Vr Hardware Irrelevant Before It Even Gets Going
Google and Facebook are pushing virtual-reality technology along two different lines.
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You Can Now 3D Print a Toupee
Owners of three-dimensional printers will be able to fabricate plastic hair using a method developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Fighting Isis Online
The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country.
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Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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