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Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...
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Quantum Cryptographers Set 400k Distance Record
Researchers in China say they have demonstrated a form of device-independent quantum cryptography, sending a key over a distance of more than 100 kilometers at...
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As It Searches For Suspects, the Fbi May Be Looking at You
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.
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First Human Test of CRISPR Proposed
A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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First Demonstration of 10-Photon Quantum Entanglement Sets New Record
Entanglement is the strange phenomenon in which quantum particles become so deeply linked that they share the same existence.
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First Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Enigma Machine
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.
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Mobile Phone Records Reveal Largest Gathering in the History of Humanity
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.
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Algorithm Clones Van Gogh's Artistic Style and Pastes It Onto Other Images, Movies
The nature of artistic style is something of a mystery to most people.
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Gene Therapy's First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here
A treatment now pending approval in Europe will be the first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure for a deadly disease.
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Ibm Inches Ahead of Google in Race For Quantum Computing Power
All kinds of things are hooked up to the Internet these days, but Jerry Chow's computer stands out. Chilled by liquid helium, his superconducting processor uses...
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Will Artificial Intelligence Win the Caption Contest?
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...
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A Simple Way to Hasten the Arrival of Self-Driving Cars
Researchers have compiled a massive public dataset for self-driving vehicles culled from thousands of hours of data from a single stretch of road over a 12-month...
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Why a Chip That's Bad at Math Can Help Computers Tackle Harder Problems
Your math teacher lied to you. Sometimes getting your sums wrong is agood thing.
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Moore's Law's Ultraviolet Savior Is Finally Ready
It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...
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A $2 Billion Chip to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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