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Hacked Dog Pics Can Play Tricks on Computer Vision AI
Researchers at MIT have demonstrated a new way to fool computer vision algorithms that enable artificial intelligence systems to see.
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Blockchain Pumping New Life Into Old-School Companies Like IBM
Blockchain is getting bigger at Big Blue.
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Finalists in Nasa's Spacecraft Sweepstakes: A Drone on Titan, and a Comet-Chaser
Would you like NASA to fly a drone across Saturn's largest moon, or to send a probe to collect samples from a duck-shaped comet?
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Can America's Power Grid Survive an Electromagnetic Attack?
Last month, federal agencies and utility executives held GridEx IV, a biennial event where officials responsible for hundreds of local utilities game out scenarios...
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Science Application Developers Share Pioneering Strategies For Exascale Computing
Three U.S. Department of Energy scientists discuss providing scalability and performance portability to prepare for exascale computing.
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Researchers Steer the Flow of Electrical Current With Spinning Light
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a device to demonstrate a way to control the direction of the photocurrent within semiconductor materials...
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Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter
Tech giants love to tout how good their computers are at identifying what's depicted in a photograph.
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Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare...
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Researchers Compute Their Way to the Center of the Earth
Researchers are using Germany's Julich Supercomputing Center to better understand how materials behave in the extreme conditions beneath the Earth's surface.
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niversity of Sydney Develops Quantum Trick to Block Background Sensor 'chatter'
Researchers have developed a method to block background "chatter," which they say solves a common problem associated with quantum sensing devices.
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Improving Traffic--By Tailgating Less
Researchers have shown that there would be fewer traffic jams if drivers would stop tailgating.
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Why Doesn't the N.f.l. se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?
It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.
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Crispr in 2018: Coming to a Human Near You
Ever since scientists first used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit living human cells in 2013, they've been saying that the possibilities for using it to treat disease are virtually...
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Your Smartphone's Next Trick? Fighting Cybercrime
Researchers have identified smartphones by examining a single photo taken by the device, opening up the possibility of using smartphones to deter cybercrime.
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Single-Photon Detector Can Count to Four
Researchers have demonstrated that a widely used method of detecting single photons can also count the presence of at least four photons at a time.
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Could Bitcoin Technology Help Science?
The much-hyped technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, has intoxicated investors around the world and is now making tentative inroads into science, spurred...
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AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder
Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.
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Aus Students Develop Device to Reduce Car Mishaps
Researchers have designed and developed a smart system to lower the rate of car accidents.
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The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem
A recent report calculated that the global electricity consumption of bitcoin mining would exceed that of the U.S. by July 2019, and of the entire world by November...
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