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This Supercomputer Will Try to Find Intelligence on Reddit
Is it possible that the secret to building machine intelligence lies in spending endless hours reading Reddit?
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Data Mining Reveals First Evidence That Absence Really Does Make the Heart Grow Fonder
A project to data-mine mobile phone records found people invest more in relationships where there exists a risk of the relationship weakening.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Facebook Plans to Beam Internet to Backwaters With Lasers
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas.
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Minecraft Is a Testing Ground For Human-AI Collaboration
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.
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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots' Stupidity
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...
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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 Ad Blockers Have Triggered an Arms Race on the Web
A team at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has conducted the first large-scale analysis of ad-block detection on the Internet.
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