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Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of Language
Chinese technology company Baidu outperformed Microsoft and Google in the General Language Understanding Evaluation, a benchmark for artificial intelligence comprehension...
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5G Underwhelms in Its First Big Test
Users of 5G services say the first implementation of the next-generation network technology in South Korea has fallen short of expectations.
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Donald Knuth on Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming
Computer scientist Donald Knuth discusses Alan Turing, neural networks, machine learning, and other topics from ant colonies and human cognition.
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Silicon Valley's Newest Rival: The Banks of the Hudson
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side.
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Researchers Try to Teach Computers to Forecast Traffic Like the Weather
Netherlands-based location/transportation data supplier Here Technologies has pushed researchers to apply big-data techniques to films of traffic in Berlin, Istanbul...
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People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants
Researchers have found that people tend to share increasingly more with online agents because of their tendency to assign them personalities and physical features...
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On University of Texas at Dallas' Growing Campus, Meal-Delivering Robots Make Splashy Debut
A fleet of cooler-shaped autonomous robots has started delivering snacks and meals at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Gym Class Without the Gym? With Technology, It's Catching On
Wearable fitness trackers are helping make online physical education more popular for students by adding the dimension of accountability.
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Chuck Peddle's $25 Microprocessor Ignited Computer Market
Engineer led team whose cheap device, launched in 1975, made desktop machines affordable.
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Chinese Hacker Group Caught Bypassing 2FA
Dutch cybersecurity firm Fox-IT said in a report that a hacker group associated with the Chinese government has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in...
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Finding a Good Read Among Billions of Choices
MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new text-analysis method for rapidly narrowing down reading material from billions of online options.
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A Computer Made From DNA Can Compute the Square Root of 900
A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900.
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Roomba Mistaken For a Burglar by Spooked Homeowners
Police called to investigate possible home intruders found a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.
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Russia Announces 'Successful Test' of Its Unplugged Internet
Russia's Ministry of Communications announced a successful test of a nationwide alternative to the Internet and claimed ordinary users did not detect any changes...
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Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Rules
Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program to all researchers and outlined the program's rules on its website. The maximum available bounty is $1.5 million...
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Scientists Demo Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation in Silicon
Scientists at the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark have developed chip-scale devices that are able to harness the applications of quantum...
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Israeli Government To Allocate $350 Million For Quantum Computing
Israel is entering the international quantum arms race, allocating approximately $350 million in an initiative to be a key quantum player over the next decade. ...
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Lasers Learn to Accurately Spot Space Junk
Chinese researchers have developed a set of algorithms that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting space junk in earth's orbit.
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How Classroom Technology Is Holding Students Back
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
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