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Quantum Computers Can Talk to Each Other via a Photon Translator
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...
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Tackling Society's Big Problems With Systems Theory
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society doctoral program is underway.
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Virtual Reality App Makes Haptics as Immersive as Visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application and a haptic chair that enable users to enhance their virtual experience with customizable...
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The 'smart City' Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Online Password Guessing Threat nderestimated
Researchers have created different guessing frameworks that prioritize the order of guessing based on attackers having access to different types of personal information...
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Accelerating Cancer Research With Deep Learning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports.
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Now You See It, Now You Don't
Researchers say they have developed a cloaking device for microscopic photonic integrated devices that will enable photonic computer chips to be more efficient....
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream p Buildings
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...
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Giant Machine Shows How a Computer Works
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have built a giant, operational 16-bit computer to help non-experts see how the mechanisms of computation work...
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Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech
Researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. have developed LipNet, a new program they say is more accurate at reading lips than human experts.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...
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Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth
Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying...
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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...
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Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
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There's Money in Your Wearable Fitness Tracker
The health information collected by wearable fitness trackers may one day carry monetary value, according to a recent study.
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Machines May Never Master the Distinctly Human Elements of Language
Artificial intelligence might never be able to completely understand human language.
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