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Monkey Face Recognition App Can Help Spot Endangered Primates
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a mobile application that can identify and track primates in the wild from facial photos.
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W&M Computing Mentorship for Girls Receives ACM National Service Award
The College of William & Mary's Society of Women in Computing has been named to receive the ACM Outstanding Community Service Award.
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt That Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Researchers have developed a scavenger hunt that could help artificial intelligence programs develop common sense.
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Critical PGP and S/MIME Bugs can Reveal Encrypted Emails—ninstall Now
The flaws can expose emails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat."
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How Even One Connected Vehicle Can Improve Safety, Save Energy
Researchers have found that even one automated vehicle using connected cruise control on the road among human-driven cars increases safety and reduces energy use...
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How the Power of Mathematics Can Help Assess Lung Function
A novel mathematical method to analyze lung scans could transform diagnosis and assessment of respiratory maladies.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Just Gave the Humble Piece of Paper a Futuristic Redesign
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a device that looks like a normal sheet of paper, but is able to digitally transfer writing to a computer.
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AI Can Spot Signs of Autism in Babies
Researchers have discovered a way to use artificial intelligence to interpret electroencephalograms to determine the chances of a child having autism spectrum disorder...
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Stanford Researchers Investigate Behavior in Quantum Systems With a Toy-Inspired Technique
Stanford University scientists have created a quantum version of Newton's cradle to study the emergence of quantum chaos and thermal equilibrium.
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A Google Program Can Pass As a Human on the Phone. Should It Be Required to Tell People It's a Machine?
Google's artificial-intelligence assistant sounds almost exactly like a human when it calls the salon to book a woman's hair appointment.
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An AI for Deciphering What Animals Do All Day
Columbia University researchers have demonstrated how an algorithm for filtering spam can parse hours of video footage to reveal the behaviors of Hydra.
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How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature's Mysterious Patterns
Mathematician and cryptologist Alan Turing was also a naturalist who used math to explain patterns in nature.
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Sessions: Congress May Need to 'Take Action' on Encryption
Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated in a Monday speech that Congress may ultimately have to wade into the debate about federal law enforcement agencies unlocking encrypted...
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Man vs. Machine?
Deep learning computers in Case Western Reserve University's diagnostic imaging laboratory routinely outperform humans in diagnosing heart failure and detecting...
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Are Human Brains Quantum Computers?
Research project could explain how memory, and the brain's biology, works.
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Driverless Car Startup Drive.ai Launching Ride-hailing Service in Texas
From day one, Drive.ai has positioned itself as the driverless car company that thinks most about human-technology interactions.
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local niversities
At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...
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The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other
Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...
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Data Science Team Receives ACM Software Prize
ACM is recognizing an international team of researchers with the 2018 Software System Award for Project Jupyter.
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