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Color-Shifting Electronic Skin Could Have Wearable Tech and Prosthetic ses
Researchers have developed a user-interactive electronic skin with a color change perceptible to the human eye.
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How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here's How to Move It Forward.
To get computers to think like humans, we need a new artificial intelligence paradigm, one that places "top down" and "bottom up" knowledge on equal footing.
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Cars Suck p Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...
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Nanoneurons Enable Neuromorphic Chips For Voice Recognition
Last month, IEEE Spectrum ran a special report focusing on the question "Can We Copy the Brain?" The report offered a thorough examination of all the ongoing efforts...
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'magic Bench' Lets sers See, Hear, and Feel Animated Characters
Researchers at Disney have developed the "Magic Bench," a combined augmented and mixed reality experience in which multiple users experience virtual surroundings...
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Chinese Scientists Create Biggest Virtual niverse With World's Fastest Computer
Chinese researchers have produced the largest virtual universe on Sunway TaihuLight, the world's fastest supercomputer, using 10 trillion digital particles. The...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Two Groups Both Win $7.5m to Study Ai, Autonomous Systems
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $15 million to two Cornell University research teams to pursue autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
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There Are More Programming Jobs Than Ever Outside of Silicon Valley
Programming jobs have spread across the U.S. and pooled in other metro areas outside of Silicon Valley, according to data from Glassdoor.
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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.
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Meet rduscript, the First rdu-Based Programming Language
UrduScript is a new programing language that makes it easier for beginners to learn programming concepts.
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The Data that Transformed AI Research, and Possibly the World
It's not about the algorithm.
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Cpu Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Five Times the Computing Power
Researchers have developed a method to increase by the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed on a field-programmable gate array.
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Chaos Theory Strengthens Digital Locks
Researchers have definitively demonstrated the strength of a 128-bit digital lock for cybersecurity applications.
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CLA Research Offers Clearest Evidence of Long-Sought Majorana Particle
A research team has uncovered evidence for the existence of the Majorana particle.
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AI-Generated Map Predicts Who Will Die Next in 'game of Thrones'
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict which characters on "Game of Thrones" will die next.
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For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Researchers often call 2017 the year of the conversational computer in China.
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