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The Scientists Who Simulate the End of the World
The U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center models how national infrastructure and human behavior would be affected by attacks or catastrophes...
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Building AI Is Hard--So Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Facebook is building artificial intelligence algorithms that can help build AI algorithms by automating much of the trial and error that goes into their testing...
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Researchers at schools such as the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing artificial intelligence to relieve the burden of teaching assistants.
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Enceladus Jets: Surprises in Starlight
During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus...
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Computer Gleans Chemical Insight from Lab Notebook Failures
Did your experiment fail? Don't bin the data just yet—they could be useful.
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Building AI Is Hard‹so Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Deep neural networks are remaking the Internet. Able to learn very human tasks by analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these artificially intelligent systems...
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After Moore's Law: Predicting The Future Beyond Silicon Chips
For several decades now, Georgia Tech professor Tom Conte has been studying how to improve computers: "How do we make them faster and more efficient next time around...
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Moore's Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks For a Successor
For decades, the computer industry has been guided by a faith that engineers would always find a way to make the components on computer chips smaller, faster and...
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Google, -M to Build Digital Tools For Flint Water Crisis
Researchers at Google and the University of Michigan's Flint and Ann Arbor campuses will develop digital tools to help Flint, MI, manage its water crisis.
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Skintrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad
SkinTrack is a new wearable technology that enables continuous touch tracking on the user's hands and arms.
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The Search for Our Missing Colors
Each year, a group of experts at Pantone, the company best known for its exacting color-matching system, chooses and promotes a Color of the Year that aims to set...
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...
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The Leap Second: Because Our Clocks Are More Accurate Than the Earth
We've recently been treated to that extra day in February that reminds us that 2016 is a leap year.
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Does Big Data Hold the Clue to Traffic Fatalities?
Researchers are developing a high-performance computing-based framework to identify patterns in data related to driving deaths and severe injuries.
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New Tech Uses Hardware, Software to Train Dogs More Efficiently
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a customized suite of technologies that enables a computer to autonomously train a dog.
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Headaches Likely to Grow Over Auto Cybersecurity Concerns
Issues related to automobile cybersecurity are likely to increase, but U.S. auto cybersecurity standards are not expected until at least 2018.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Create the Next Wonder Material?
It's a strong contender for the geekiest video ever made: a close-up of a smartphone with line upon line of numbers and symbols scrolling down the screen. But when...
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Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
If you've ever run a business, whether it's an ice cream shop or a Fortune 500 company, then you've probably kept a ledger.
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Found: Clues About Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
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