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X-Ray Eyes in the Sky
Researchers have demonstrated three-dimensional (3D) imaging of objects through walls using Wi-Fi signals.
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From Drinking Straws to Robots
Researchers at Harvard University have created a type of semi-soft robot that can stand and walk, and a different robotic water strider that can push itself along...
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'internet of Ships' Tells Tale of ss Fitzgerald Tragedy, Or Half of It
On early Saturday morning off the coast of Japan, the Philippines-flagged cargo container carrierACX Crystal struck the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) on its starboard...
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How to Build Software For a Computer 50 Times Faster Than Anything in the World
Argonne National Laboratory scientists aim to produce exascale-enabled software by surmounting problems in memory, power, and computational resources.
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Deepmind Now Learns from Human Preferences, Just Like a Toddler
AI systems continue to get increasingly powerful, but still need far too much hand-holding by their human masters. New research from DeepMind and OpenAI suggests...
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World's Most Powerful Particle Collider Taps AI to Expose Hack Attacks
Thousands of scientists worldwide tap into CERN's computer networks each day in their quest to better understand the fundamental structure of the universe.
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Nasa Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting...
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Top500: .s. Knocked Out of 'top Three Most Powerful' List
The U.S. is no longer among the top three in the Top500's latest ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead
Newly released code purportedly will enable bots to negotiate.
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How Quantum Physics Will Change Cybersecurity
Quantum physics is an often mind-boggling branch of science filled with strange behavior and bizarre implications.
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S Gov’t Taps The Machine to Beat China to Exascale Supercomputing
With China threatening to build the world's first exascale supercomputer before the US, the US Department of Energy has awarded a research grant to Hewlett Packard...
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Github Survey: Open Source Is Popular, Plagued By Poor Docs and Rude People
A new GitHub survey found open source development's popularity is tempered by poor documentation and provocation, mainly rudeness, among developers.
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ta-Led Interdisciplinary Team to Construct Computer Program to Identify Fake News
Researchers say they are developing computer tools to detect social bots within the World Wide Web that create and spread fake news.
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Agencies 'flying Blind' Without More Data
U.S. government agencies require better tools and datasets to assess how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will impact the private-sector...
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China's Quantum Satellite Clears Major Hurdle on Way to ltrasecure Communications
Just months into its mission, the world's first quantum-communications satellite has achieved one of its most ambitious goals.
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
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The Pentagon Looks to Videogames For the Future of War
The first real computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1946. The first computer war game appeared two years later.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Researchers think the field of merging quantum computing with machine learning may soon be ripe for commercialization.
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