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5G Underwhelms in Its First Big Test
Users of 5G services say the first implementation of the next-generation network technology in South Korea has fallen short of expectations.
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Silicon Valley's Newest Rival: The Banks of the Hudson
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side.
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Researchers Try to Teach Computers to Forecast Traffic Like the Weather
Netherlands-based location/transportation data supplier Here Technologies has pushed researchers to apply big-data techniques to films of traffic in Berlin, Istanbul...
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People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants
Researchers have found that people tend to share increasingly more with online agents because of their tendency to assign them personalities and physical features...
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On University of Texas at Dallas' Growing Campus, Meal-Delivering Robots Make Splashy Debut
A fleet of cooler-shaped autonomous robots has started delivering snacks and meals at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Gym Class Without the Gym? With Technology, It's Catching On
Wearable fitness trackers are helping make online physical education more popular for students by adding the dimension of accountability.
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Tool Uses AI to Flag Fake News for Media Fact-Checkers
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could help social media networks and news organizations screen out fake news.
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Many Facial Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study
A study found most commercial facial recognition algorithms are biased, and falsely identify African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more frequently than...
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Apple, Google, Amazon Decide to 'Play Nice' Over Smart Home Tech
Apple, Google, and Amazon are partnering to improve smart home technology.
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City Incentivizes Car 'Connected' Technology for Study
The Columbus, OH, City Council approved a program that will ask 1,300 residents to equip their vehicles with "connected" technology that allows them to communicate...
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Princeton Researchers Listen In on the Chemical Conversation of the Human Microbiome
New computer algorithms that can detect biosynthetic gene clusters by analyzing and interpreting metagenomic sequencing data from the tissues or excretions of human...
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Neural Network for Elderly Care Could Save Millions
Researchers have developed a risk adjustment model to predict how frenquently elderly people will seek treatment from a healthcare center or hospital.
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Recognizing Kin
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
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Twitter, Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?
Major Internet companies have come to see bitcoin technology as a potential solution to many challenges.
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Santa Claus Visits are Going Digital, from 'Elfies' to Augmented Reality
Macerich, one of the largest mall operators in the U.S., is offering "Santa HQ 5.0" at 15 of its malls across the country.
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Researchers Reconstruct Spoken Words as Processed in Nonhuman Primate Brains
Researchers used a brain-computer interface to reconstruct English words from neural signals recorded in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys.
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First 3D-Printed Neighborhood Being Built in Mexico
Social housing nonprofit New Story is using a giant three-dimensional (3D) printer to create the world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood in a rural section of Tabasco...
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Government Regimes May Be Learning New Twitter Tactics to Quash Dissent
Researchers suggest authoritarian governments may be using new Twitter strategies to suppress social media-using dissenters.\
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Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
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