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Everything You Need to Know About Gene Therapy's Most Promising Year
For a few lucky patients, 2016 was the year when gene therapy turned from promises to cures.
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AI Begins to Understand the 3D World
Artificial intelligence researchers are constructing systems that can visualize the three-dimensional world and take action.
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Security Experts Warn Congress That the Internet of Things Could Kill People
A growing mass of poorly secured devices on the Internet of things represents a serious risk to life and property, and the government must intervene to mitigate...
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China Turns Big Data Into Big Brother
It was a drab, chill day in November, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.
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World's First Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.
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Can Crispr Save Ben Dupree?
At 24, Benjamin Dupree has outlived many people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Japanese Robotics Giant Gives Its Arms Some Brains
The big, dumb, monotonous industrial robots found in many factories could soon be quite a bit smarter, thanks to the introduction of machine-learning skills that...
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Physicists Create World's First Time Crystal
University of Maryland researchers say they have created the world's first time crystal, which could lead to quantum memory systems.
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Google Builds a Robotic Hive-Mind Kindergarten
How many robots does it take to open a door?
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.
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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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The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the niverse
In the last couple of years, deep learning techniques have transformed the world of artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to help the FBI get into a mass murderer's iPhone last winter, he was hailed for his boldness in fighting the government on ...
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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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What Robots Can Learn From Babies
New software can predict how objects captured by a computing device's camera will most likely behave.
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High-Speed Video Footage Solves One of the Great Mysteries of Human Blood Flow
Red blood cells are flexible biconcave discs that spend their lives suspended in blood plasma.
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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals By Studying Their Instagram Photos
Researchers have trained a machine-learning algorithm to spot warning signs for depression on Instagram by analyzing the composition of posted images.
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Arm Wrestles Its Way Into Supercomputing
The designer of the chips that run most of the world's mobile devices has announced its first dedicated processor for use in supercomputers.
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