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The Algorithm That Changed Quantum Machine Learning
A college student discovered a classical computing algorithm that experts overlooked. It promises to change both classical and quantum machine learning.
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What Makes a Robot Likable?
Interactions with robotics teach us more about people.
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Microsoft Quantum Algorithm Boosts Medical Imaging
Microsoft and Case Western Reserve University researchers have enhanced the speed and quality of medical imaging with an algorithm designed to work on a future...
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Forces Behind Growing Political Polarization in Congress Revealed in New Model
Researchers analyzed roll call votes taken in the U.S. Congress to develop a model able to accurately predict changes in polarization in 28 of the 30 U.S. Congresses...
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Personal Firewalls
Researchers find a way to make many implanted medical devices virtually hack-proof.
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Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant
Researchers have developed tiny three-dimensionally (3D)-printed robots that move by harnessing vibrations.
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The Speediest Quantum Operation Yet
Researchers in Australia built the first two-qubit gate between atomic qubits in silicon.
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Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
Many databases of facial images are compiled by companies and researchers without the knowledge or consent of the owners of those faces.
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Automated System Generates Robotic Parts for Novel Tasks
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...
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Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate for Quantum Information Processing - with Qudits
Purdue niversity researchers used qudits to develop what could be a quantum version of a transistor, known as a gate.
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Drones Could Herd Rhinos From Poaching Hotspots
Researchers in the .K. found that drones and siren sounds were most effective in getting endangered southern white rhinos to leave poaching hotspots in national...
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Robots Have a Hard Time Grasping "Adversarial Objects"
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have extended the concept of adversarial images to robot grasping, using physical objects designed to be...
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A New Way to Recognize Objects
Radar opens up possibilities for human-computer interaction.
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Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
Supermarket chains in Europe are testing cashierless stores with cameras that monitor items shoppers pick, with transactions recorded as they exit.
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A Zoom Flaw Gives Hackers Easy Access to Your Webcam
Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the Zoom videoconferencing desktop app to commandeer a user's Webcam, a security researcher warns.
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Recognizing Kidney Injury Due to Burns Is Improved by AI
A new artificial intelligence/machine learning model can predict burn-related acute kidney injury quicker and more accurately than ever.
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Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is Profitable. Most Online Outrage is Faked for Profit'
The founder of the online classifieds site is a survivor of the era of Internet optimism. He rejects the idea his website helped cause journalism's financial crisis...
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Hackers Breach Greece's Top-Level Domain Registrar
Researchers said Greece's top-level domain registrar has suffered a hacker breach, and identified the state-sponsored "Sea Turtle" hacker group as the perpetrator...
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AI Can Edit Photos with Zero Experience
Researchers are using deep internal learning, in which a machine learning algorithm ascertains the internal structure of a single image from scratch, to edit photos...
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