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Scientists se Machine Learning to Translate 'hidden' Information That Reveals Chemistry in Action
Researchers say they have taught computers to decipher previously inaccessible information from x-ray data and apply it to decoding three-dimensional nanoscale...
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Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States.
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Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song
Researchers have built a brain-to-tweet interface that predicts the song a finch is going to sing a fraction of a second before it does so.
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Nasa Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event
For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located...
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Astronomers Are Finally Mapping the 'dark Side' of the Milky Way
Think of the Milky Way—or search for pictures of it online—and you'll see images of a standard spiral galaxy viewed face-on, a sprawling pinwheel of starlight and...
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Put Humans at the Center of AI
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
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Internet Researchers Harnessed the Power of Algorithm to Find Hate Speech
Researchers have trained an algorithm to identify hate speech by comparing what differentiates text that includes hate speech from text that does not contain hate...
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Driverless Cars Could Let You Choose Who Survives in a Crash
Researchers have developed a dial that will switch a smart car's setting from "full altruist" to "full egoist," with the middle setting being impartial.
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The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them.
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Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...
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How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?
Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today.
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Mathematical Modeling For Better Designs and Simulations
Dublin City University professor Patricia Moore in Ireland says she tries "to make it easier for computers to solve simulation problems as efficiently and accurately...
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Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain
"Here's the problem with artificial intelligence today," says David Cox.
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Reconstructing Cassini's Plunge Into Saturn
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science...
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How the Search For a 'death Ray' Led to Radar
You can trace the extent of our reliance on air travel to many inventions. The jet engine, perhaps, or the aeroplane itself. But sometimes inventions need other...
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Scientists Enlist Supercomputers, Machine Learning to Automatically Identify Brain Tumors
A team of researchers is developing a fully automatic method that combines biophysical models of tumor growth with machine-learning algorithms to analyze magnetic...
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The Scientist Who Spots Fake Videos
Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, specialises in detecting manipulated images and videos. Farid, who provides his...
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O.k., Computer, Tell Me What This Smells Like
Our sense of smell is gloriously specific.
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Half the niverse's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe—protons, neutrons...
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