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How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore's Law
Microprocessors got smaller, faster, and more power-efficient, but as they reach their physical limitations, chip architecture is driving performance gains.
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Can an Algorithm Detect a Speaker's Mood?
Researchers have developed an algorithm to determine a speaker's mood in real time by registering not only their speech, but also their vital signs.
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Volunteers Archive Government Data, Worry Trump Administration Could Cut Access
Volunteers are working to archive public databases hosted by U.S. government agencies because they are worried access to the data could be cut off by the Trump...
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States Wire p Roads as Cars Get Smarter
To prepare for the day when self-driving cars will travel on technology-aided roads, U.S. state transit planners aim to outfit those roadways with fiber optics,...
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Iarpa to Develop Early-Warning System For Cyberattacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a multi-year initiative to create technologies that could provide early warning of cyberattacks...
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Hackers Infect Army of Cameras, Dvrs For Massive Internet Attacks
Attackers used an army of hijacked security cameras and video recorders to launch several massive internet attacks last week, prompting fresh concern about the...
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How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back
"This is a final notice from the IRS."
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Too Cute For Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
Robot designers are developing robots that appear non-threatening, but can take action when humans attracted to their cuteness interfere with performance of their...
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How New Technology Is Illuminating a Classic Ethical Dilemma
On a pleaant Friday afternoon in April, the grassy quadrangle at the center of the Carnegie Mellon University campus is buzzing with activity.
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Researchers at schools such as the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing artificial intelligence to relieve the burden of teaching assistants.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
The next frontier for game-playing artificial intelligence could be the popular real-time strategy game "StarCraft."
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Tech Companies Help Women Get Back to Work
Technology companies are leveraging internships and other programs to help women return to work and update the skills they need to be competitive.
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Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...
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Crowd Control? Baidu Has an Algorithm For That
Baidu's Big Data Lab has devised an algorithm that can predict crowd formation.
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Tiny Cameras to See in the Intestines
The digestive tract can be inhospitable terrain to examine.
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How the .s. Fights Encryption--and Also Helps Develop It
Some U.S. government agencies are financing the development of encryption technologies to protect communications even as others seek to circumvent them.
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Cynthia Breazeal's Robotic Quest
Cynthia Breazeal has committed herself to the development of socially intelligent robots.
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