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How A.i. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
In the mid-1990s, Douglas Eck worked as a database programmer in Albuquerque while moonlighting as a musician.
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Plant Species For Science
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of Dna
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through...
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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
To an untrained AI, the world is a blur of confusing data streams.
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Cu Boulder Wants Humans to Experience Secret Life of Pets
Researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to design and build wearable technologies to help humans experience the world through a dog's...
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Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus
The longest amount of time that a spacecraft has survived on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes.
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How to Map the Circuits That Define S
Marta Zlatic owns what could be the most tedious film collection ever.
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Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI
When Jason Matheny joined the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a program manager in 2009, he made a habit of chatting to the organization's...
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National Ignition Facility Recreates the Interior of Heavy Stars
In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."
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New Clues to niverse's Structure Revealed
What is our universe made of, and has its composition changed over time?
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New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Could the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets?
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Radio Navigation Set to Make Global Return as Gps Backup, Because Cyber
Way back in the 1980s, when I was a young naval officer, the Global Positioning System was still in its experimental stage.
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Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly nlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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Artificial Intelligence Helps to Keep Tired Drivers Awake
Researchers at Panasonic have developed an artificial intelligence platform to keep tired drivers comfortably alert at all times.
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Cosmic Map Reveals a Not-So-Lumpy niverse
Cosmologists have produced the biggest map yet of the Universe's structure and they find it less lumpy than previous surveys have suggested.
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The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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An App For the Perfect Selfie
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say they have developed a smartphone application to help people learn how to take better selfies.
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