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Crystals Could Cool Down Your Future Electronic Devices
A team of researchers used boron arsenide crystals to cool electronic devices more effectively than current methods.
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How Do Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Drive? Download This Self-Driving Dataset and See for Yourself
The University of California, Berkeley has made available a massive dataset used by engineers in the development of driverless auto technologies.
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Meet REMS, the Robot That Discovered $17 Billion in Sunken Treasure
Two years ago, an autonomous underwater vehicle from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute located an underwater wreck containing $17 billion in sunken treasure.
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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Sony, Carnegie Mellon Form Partnership to Research Cooking Robots
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to improve food preparation, cooking, and delivery.
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DevOps, Machine Learning Dominate Technology Opportunities This Year
Programming languages and frameworks associated with DevOps and machine learning are on the rise, and developers working in these areas garner the highest salaries...
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GitHub Hit With the Largest DDoS Attack Ever Seen
Distributed Denial of Service attackers have found a new way of magnifying their attacks, with experts warning that bigger attacks are likely.
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Mosaic's Birthday: 25 Years of the Modern Web
Twenty-five years ago, the first release of Mosaic Web browser appeared and the Web, as you know it, began.
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niversity of Sydney Develops Quantum Trick to Block Background Sensor 'chatter'
Researchers have developed a method to block background "chatter," which they say solves a common problem associated with quantum sensing devices.
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Google's AI Can Now Spot Shoulder-Surfers Peeking at Your Screen
Google researchers have developed an "electronic screen protector" application that can immediately spot people glancing at a user's handheld screen.
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There's a Huge Opportunity in Robotics For Early-Career Computer Scientists and Serious Software Engineers
University of Washington professor Maya Cakmak discusses the role of programming by demonstration in her work on human-machine interaction.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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Most People Expect Humans Will Grow to Trust, Even Love, AI
Most people expect artificial intelligence eventually will earn the trust and even affection of humans.
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Top500: .s. Knocked Out of 'top Three Most Powerful' List
The U.S. is no longer among the top three in the Top500's latest ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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China Can Help Drive Global Progress in Quantum Computing
2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Andrew Chi-Chih Yao says China could potentially take a global lead in quantum computing innovation.
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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Rise of the Robo-Journalists? Google Teaches an AI the Art of Writing a Good Headline
The Google Brain Team says it has made strides in teaching computers to summarize text, and has developed an algorithm that can write "very good" headlines.
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...
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