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How Architects Are sing Virtual Reality to Walk Through Buildings That Don't Yet Exist
Virtual reality is allowing architects to preview structures that have not yet been built in an immersive, three-dimensional manner.
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How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....
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HHS Is sing Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud, and Just About Everything Else
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is using refined data analytics to combat medical fraud, waste, and abuse.
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Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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Mathematicians Tame Turbulence in Flattened Fluids
Turbulence, the splintering of smooth streams of fluid into chaotic vortices, doesn't just make for bumpy plane rides. It also throws a wrench into the very mathematics...
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4G Is Vulnerable to Same Types of Attacks as 3G, Researchers Say
A new report has found the 4G wireless telecommunications protocol is susceptible to the same types of remote exploitation as 3G.
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A Refined Magnetic Sense
An international team has demonstrated that algorithms and hardware developed for quantum computation can be applied to quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields...
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Simulations Break Down Potential Impact of a Major Quake by Building Location, Size
Two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories are using supercomputers to simulate the impact of a large-magnitude earthquake with unprecedented precision...
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SpaceX Is Flying an Artificially Intelligent Robot Named CIMON to the International Space Station
An artificially intelligent robot was launched to the International Space Station last week to assist with scientific experiments.
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Don't Just Lecture Robots; Make Them Learn
The robot apocalypse is nigh. Boston Dynamics' robots are doing backflips and opening doors for their friends. Oh, and these 7-foot-long robot arms can lift 500...
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New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation
A new algorithm could dramatically slash the time it can take computers to recommend movies or route taxis.
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A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
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Personalized 'Deep Learning' Equips Robots for Autism Therapy
A personalized deep learning network is designed to help robots gauge the effect of autism therapy on children, using data that is unique to each patient.
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Chinese Scientists Set New Quantum Entanglement Record
Researchers in China have set a world record for entanglement of 18 quantum bits, keeping China ahead in the international competition to create a functioning quantum...
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'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform is analyzing players' emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
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Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets...
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Computational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons
A new computational model enables more detailed comparative analysis of genome function across species.
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Autonomous Trucks for Logistics Centers
The Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems in Germany is collaborating with industry to develop autonomous truck technologies in logistics...
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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