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Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
Harvard University researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm to train a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents....
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Eavesdropping Prohibited
Researchers want to automate encryption so software developers can correctly integrate cryptographic protocols into applications that communicate over the Internet...
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.
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Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles's leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might...
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Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
As we surf from website to website, we are being tracked—that's not news. What is news, revealed in a recent paper by researchers at Princeton University, is that...
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.
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Ibm and Mit Partner p to Create AI That nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do
The new IBM-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension will research computer vision and audition.
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The New Face of Biometrics
Advances in biometric authentication are finally pushing the technology into the mainstream.
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A New 3d Viewer For Improved Digital Geoscience Mapping
Researchers from Norway and the U.K. have collaborated on software designed for virtual model interpretation and visualization.
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Building a Bionic Spine
Australian neurologist Tom Oxley was on vacation in the US in November 2010 when he decided to do a bit of work.
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Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'
Cornell Tech researchers have shown they can reverse-engineer machine-learning algorithms, essentially stealing artificial intelligence products and using them...
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New Language Expands on Google's Go
Polish developer Marcin Wrochniak has introduced Have, a computer language that transpiles to and expands on Google's Go.
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Germany to Create World's First Highway Code For Driverless Cars
The first legal framework for autonomous vehicles was outlined in a recently proposed bill in Germany governing how such cars perform in potentially deadly crashes...
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Researchers Restore First-Ever Computer Music Recording Generated on Alan Turing's Computer
Researchers from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have restored the first recording of computer-generated music.
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.
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Brain to Robot: 'move, Please'
Researchers in Switzerland are developing robots that can help paralyzed stroke victims regain the use of their arms and hands.
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Modern Technology nlocks Secrets of a Damaged Biblical Scroll
Biblical scholars in Israel used technology developed by University of Kentucky computer scientists to examine an ancient charred scroll virtually with a digital...
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The Wikipedia Bots that Are Engaged in Spats that Never End
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Tech Giants Team p to Fix Typography's Biggest Problem
Fonts have a serious image problem.
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