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Computer Program Looks Five Minutes Into the Future
Self-learning software can predict actions five minutes into the future by first learning typical sequences of events from video footage, and then predicting actions...
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Drone Swarms Are the New Fireworks Lighting Up China's Skies
Since China banned fireworks across more than 400 cities to reduce pollution, a new entertainment has emerged to fill the skies: drone swarms.
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Ramp-p in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new...
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Colliding Wormholes May Be Causing Gravitational Waves
One of the most significant scientific developments of recent times has been the five separate observations of the elusive ripples in space-time known as gravitational...
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Massive Martian Dust Storm Endangers NASA Rover
An enormous dust storm is blanketing much of Mars, blocking the sunlight that NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover needs to survive.
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In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You
The camera perched above the bus stop sends back a continuous feed from the corner of 16th Avenue and South 18th Street in Newark's West Ward.
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Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Supercomputers. Here's What to Do About It
The Cray-1 supercomputer, the world's fastest back in the 1970s, does not look like a supercomputer.
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The niverse Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
In the early 2000s, a small community of coder-cosmologists set out to simulate the 14-billion-year history of the universe on a supercomputer.
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AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...
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ZTE's Near-Collapse May Be China's Sputnik Moment
Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom.
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Memristors Key to Nano-Scale Analog/Digital Adaptive Hardware
The University of Southampton in the U.K. is advancing memristors and charge-based processing to make analog and digital technologies adaptable in the nanoscale...
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Opportunity Hunkers Down During Dust Storm
NASA engineers received a transmission from Opportunity on Sunday morning, a positive sign despite the worsening dust storm.
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Forecasting the Evolution of Cancer
Researchers have created a computer model that predicts how tumors will develop.
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Move Over, China: .S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer
The United States just won bragging rights in the race to build the world's speediest supercomputer.
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The -2 Spy Plane Is Still Flying Combat Missions 60 Years After Its Debut
Six decades after the U-2 flew its first mission, the military is trying to harness artificial-intelligence technology to enhance the venerable spy plane's combat...
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Why Emergency Braking Systems Sometimes Hit Parked Cars and Lane Dividers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...
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Eggers Receives Eckert-Mauchly Award for Contributions to Computer Architecture
The University of Washington’s Susan Eggers has received the 2018 Eckert-Mauchly Award for her contributions to the field of computer architecture.
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NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in...
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