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Protecting the Smart Grid
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Protecting the Smart Grid

Microgrids can provide greater resiliency.

Mania and the Machine
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Mania and the Machine

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati used "genetic fuzzy trees" to generate a 100% accurate predictive model of patient response to lithium.

Chatbots Learn How to Negotiate and Drive a Hard Bargain
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Chatbots Learn How to Negotiate and Drive a Hard Bargain

What's in it for me?

­.s. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment in Artificial Intelligence
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­.s. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment in Artificial Intelligence

The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national...

The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks
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The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks

Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...

Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots
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Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research on social networks.

Hkbu Invention Detects and Alerts Sleepy Drivers
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Hkbu Invention Detects and Alerts Sleepy Drivers

Researchers have developed a system that detects sleepy drivers and alerts them using a smartphone.

Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body

Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.

Light-Based Neural Network Does Simple Speech Recognition
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Light-Based Neural Network Does Simple Speech Recognition

While there are lots of things that artificial intelligence can't do yet—science being one of them—neural networks are proving themselves increasingly adept at...

Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World

The world is a confusing place, especially for an AI.

­.s. Cyberweapons, ­sed Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against Isis
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­.s. Cyberweapons, ­sed Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against Isis

America's fast-growing ranks of secret cyberwarriors have in recent years blown up nuclear centrifuges in Iran and turned to computer code and electronic warfare ...

Smiling During Victory Could Hurt Your Future Chances of Cooperation
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Smiling During Victory Could Hurt Your Future Chances of Cooperation

People who smile when they are victorious in contests raise the odds of opponents being non-cooperative in subsequent competitions, according to a new study.

­tsa Professor Wins $450,000 Nsf Grant to Develop Artificial Intelligence That Can Detect Computer System Faults
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­tsa Professor Wins $450,000 Nsf Grant to Develop Artificial Intelligence That Can Detect Computer System Faults

A University of Texas at San Antonio professor has received a $450,000 grant to develop a hardware-based AI system for detecting software bugs and security attacks...

Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future

The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...

Israel's Quantum Leap
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Israel's Quantum Leap

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Quantum Information Science Center has received a $2.1-million government contract to construct a national quantum communications...

How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters

The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage...

Researchers Land $3 Million to Build Cyberattack Defenses
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Researchers Land $3 Million to Build Cyberattack Defenses

Researchers at Clemson University are part of a team of computer experts from five universities to develop new defenses to protect data from computer hacking.

How the Brain Recognizes What the Eye Sees
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How the Brain Recognizes What the Eye Sees

Salk Institute researchers have analyzed how neurons in the V2 section of the brain respond to natural scenes.

3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
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3 Principles For Creating Safer AI

How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover?

Deepmind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions
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Deepmind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions

DeepMind has created a YouTube dataset of 300,000 video clips and 400 human action classes to train its deep-learning algorithms to better identify human activities...
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