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Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery
Computer science researchers recently helped to make a major advance in astronomy, as scientists announced last month they observed two neutron stars colliding....
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Nanoscale 'abacus' ses Pulses of Light Instead of Wooden Beads to Perform Calculations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale optical "abacus" that uses light signals to perform arithmetic computation.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.
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Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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System ses 'deep Learning' to Detect Cracks in Nuclear Reactors
Purdue University researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system to detect cracks captured in videos of a nuclear reactor.
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Johns Hopkins-Led Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives
An international team of researchers is using an $11-million U.S. Department of Defense grant to streamline investigations by developing algorithms for extracting...
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Researcher: 'we Should Be Worried' This Computer Thought a Turtle Was a Gun
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's LabSix artificial intelligence team has demonstrated the first example of a three-dimensional object becoming "adversarial"...
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Can AI Help to Detect and Cure Cancer?
University of Southern California Viterbi professor Fei Sha plans to focus her efforts on applying the findings of statistical machine learning to medical science...
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Stanford Researchers Seek Citizen Scientists to Contribute to Worldwide Mosquito Tracking
Researchers are seeking citizen scientists to contribute to a mosquito-monitoring platform.
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Building A.i. That can Build A.i.
They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially...
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Wormholes Join Black Holes By Quantum Teleportation
A century after wormholes were first theorized, scientists have posited that passages through space-time can be traversed using a special quantum connection between...
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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Captcha Is Dying. This Is How It's Being Reinvented For the AI Age
Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) appear to be heading toward obsolescence.
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Crowdsourcing Big-Data Analysis
FeatureHub is a new collaboration tool designed to make feature identification more efficient and effective.
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Uss mccain collision Ultimately Caused By Ui Confusion
On November 1, the US Navy issued its report on the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain this summer.
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Russian Ads, Now Publicly Released, Show Sophistication of Influence Campaign
Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote...
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Ornl, City of Oak Ridge Partner on Sensor Project to Capture Trends in Cities
Researchers are partnering with Oak Ridge, TN, to develop a sensor network and real-time visualization platform that helps cities evaluate urban activity trends...
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