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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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nexpected, Star-Spangled Find May Lead to Advanced Electronics
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have developed a material that can transform from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array...
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Quadruped Robot Exhibits Spontaneous Changes in Step with Speed
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have successfully demonstrated that a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns...
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sing Virtual Reality to Catch a Real Ball
Disney researchers have developed ways to enhance virtual experiences involving interactions with physical objects by showing how a person using a virtual reality...
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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Computing the Arts
Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.
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How to Hunt For a Black Hole with a Telescope the Size of Earth
Here's how to catch a black hole. First, spend many years enlisting eight of the top radio observatories across four continents to join forces for an unprecedented...
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Atomic Clocks Make Best Measurement Yet of Relativity of Time
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
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Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working to make the process of a robot autonomously grasping an object easier.
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Mathematicians Create Warped Worlds in Virtual Reality
"It feels like the entire universe is within a sphere that is maybe within a couple metres' radius," says topologist Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University...
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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DARPA Wants to Cultivate the ltimate Transistor of the Future
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this month will present the Dynamic Range-enhanced Electronics and Materials program, which aims to develop a...
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Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is supporting research on deciphering the timing and sequences of bird calls.
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Molecular Motor-Powered Biocomputers
European researchers recently launched a research project that aims to develop a biocomputer based on highly efficient molecular motors that will use a fraction...
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Origami-Inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover
The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout.
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New Extension Improves Inflight Wi-Fi
A new Google Chrome browser extension dramatically upgrades Wi-Fi browsing speeds at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
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Researchers Are sing Darwin's Theories to Evolve Ai, So Only the Strongest Algorithms Survive
Researchers at Google Brain and OpenAI are applying Darwinian principles of evolution to advance artificial intelligence.
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