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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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This Robot Knows When It's Confused and Asks For Help
Brown University researchers have developed a robot that measures its own confusion and then asks for help if it thinks it is required.
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New Shark Spotter Algorithm Lets Surfers Take to the Break With Confidence
Shark Spotter is an algorithm that uses video footage streamed from drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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Computer Geeks Develop Algorithm to Detect Defects in Fruits and Grade Them Automatically
A new image-processing technique automatically checks the quality of fruits based on their color and texture.
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French Election Is Facebook's Fake News Litmus Test
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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Nasa Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April...
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When Artificial Intelligence Evaluates Chess Champions
Jean-Marc Alliot at the Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse in France has developed a system that directly ranks chess players based on the quality...
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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Supercomputing: Probing the Future
A new automated probe system for gauging the performance of computer elements is designed to run 100 times faster than current supercomputers, while consuming far...
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New Dependent Routing Technique Helps Eliminate Algorithmic Bias
Researchers have developed a new method to counter algorithmic bias, with the goal of proving algorithms can guarantee fairness in resource allocation.
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New Method Enables More Realistic Hair Simulation
Disney researchers say they have developed a new method that makes it possible to realistically simulate hair by observing real hair in motion.
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Geeks V Government: The Battle Over Public Key Cryptography
Two graduate students stood silently beside a lectern, listening as their professor presented their work to a conference.
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'iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing
Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun.
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A Massive New Library of 3D Images Could Help Your Robot Butler Get Around Your House
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...
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sing Data Science to nderstand Global Climate Systems
Researchers at the University of Rochester are using data science to understand the phenomena driving the global climate system.
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Scientific Discovery Game Significantly Speeds p Neuroscience Research Process
Mozak is a new scientific discovery game enabling citizen scientists to generate three-dimensional reconstructions of neurons in different regions of human and...
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