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Twitter 'joke Bots' Shame Human Sense of Humor
Two Twitter bots generate phrases that are funny by virtue of not being particularly funny, to poke fun at human tweeters' own attempts at humor.
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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A Videogame That Recruits Players to Map the Brain
I'm no neuroscientist, and yet, here I am at my computer attempting to reconstruct a neural circuit of a mouse’s retina.
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Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California
On a pebbled field built next to a parking lot, a small rover scoots forward and expels a long sheet of polyimide plastic from its backside, the third film the...
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MIT Whiz Wants to Turn Your Skin Into a Computer Interface
According to Lynette Jones, a senior research scientist in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, your skin has about as many sensory receptors as your eyeballs...
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
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A Mind-Blowing Dome Made By 6,500 Computer-Guided Silkworms
Researchers have used 6,500 live silkworms to create a three-dimensional printed dome, utilizing a hybrid fabrication method called CNSilk.
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.
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Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps For First Time Ever, Feds Say
For the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said Friday.
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The Tao of Facebook: 'Social Graph' Takes New Path
Facebook has developed a system called The Association of Objects (TAO) that facilitates the balance between data stored in MySQL and more frequently accessed data...
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The Internet of Things: Open Garden
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct experiments involving the building blocks...
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Researcher Dreams p Machines That Learn Without Humans
Yoshua Bengio recently had a vision—a vision of how to build computers that learn like people do.
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
A researcher is trying to make deep learning more accessible to researchers.
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.
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CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
It took eight years after artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his cryptographic sculpture at the CIA's headquarters for someone to succeed at cracking Kryptos's enigmatic...
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