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Sorting Through Photos
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.
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The Search Engine That Predicts What You Want
In the future the news will find you—at least according to Futureful, a Finnish startup building a predictive discovery iPad app that will deliver personalised...
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Busy Job of Judging Video-Game Content to Be Ceded to Machines
The little E's, T's, and M's that appear on the covers of video games get there the old-fashioned way: People working for the Entertainment Software Rating Board...
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Robots on the Farm
Commercial farms of the future may be staffed by robots that will identify, spray and pick individual pieces of produce from plants, even when their targets are...
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How Google Is Teaching Computers to See
Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower...
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Robot Could Guide Humans Through Areas of Low Visibility
Sheffield Hallam University researchers are helping to develop a robot that can guide humans in areas of low visibility. The robot, which will be slightly larger...
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Ibm's Watson Not As Smart As You Think
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...
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Artificial Intelligence For Improving Data Processing
Carlos III University of Madrid recently hosted a group of AI experts to discuss the technology's latest advances. Five researchers discussed issues including...
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Software Pinpoints Afghan Fighters
The ongoing military campaign against Afghan insurgents may get a boost from new computer software designed to zero in on the locations of weapons caches and...
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Military
The Pentagon has spent decades and gazillions of dollars trying to build the perfect translation device. Now, its far-out research arm is looking at a new direction...
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Darpa's Humanoid Robbie Never Takes His Eyes Off You
In preparation for National Robotics Week, an initiative of the Congressional Robotics Caucus, at the National Museum of American History, which kicks off on...
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A Browser that Speaks Your Language
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...
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Nasa Readies Jobs For Robonaut
The space android called Robonaut 2 was just unpacked from its box last month, but NASA is already thinking up jobs for the darn thing to do, such as replacing...
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Flying Robots Team p to Juggle
Our flying robot overlords seem to have a fun side after all. In this video, watch two quadrocopters team up to skillfully juggle a ball, thanks to software developed...
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Spiders and Crabs Inspire Robot Locomotion
The walking patterns of crabs, lobsters and spiders are helping to inspire new ways of getting robots to move around.
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In a Country Known For Robots, Their Chief Tasks Didn't Include Nuclear Safety
Japan's focus on building humanoid robots that perform tasks that humans can already do, instead of building robots that can go where humans cannot, has made it...
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How a Robot Can Replace You at Work
As telepresence robots begin to appear in more and more offices and factories, they are poised to transform the way we work and interact with our colleagues.
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Fake Tweets By 'socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers
Three socialbots recently integrated themselves into a group of Twitter users, gained 250 followers, and received 240 responses to the tweets they sent over a two...
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