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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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Get Smart
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan have developed a system they say could lead to the next generation of home thermostats. ...
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Google Tries to Make Machine Learning a Little More Human
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.
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Researchers Threatened a Robot With a Knife to See If Humans Cared
A recently published study found that human beings will readily empathize with human-like robots.
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Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate
The Going Dark encryption debate surfaced again on Wednesday at a small security conference here, and as in previous iterations before larger technical audiences...
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Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things
Moving the Internet of Things forward will require, among other things, standards, the ability to configure massive numbers of devices, and a healthy dose of paranoia...
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I'm Going to Make Facebook's AI Predict What Happens in Videos
What are the big challenges ahead for you?
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Nasa Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian...
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...
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Europe's Largest Data Observatory Turns Big Data Into Big Images
This week marks the official opening of Imperial College London's KPMG Data Observatory, the largest such facility in Europe.
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Google Aims to Make Vr Hardware Irrelevant Before It Even Gets Going
Google and Facebook are pushing virtual-reality technology along two different lines.
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With AI Advances, Facebook Tests M, Your Newest Assistant
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer says the volume of data Facebook serves to users' News Feeds is increasing about 50 percent annually.
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Into the ncanny Valley: 80 Robot Faces Ranked By Creepiness
Recent experiments sought to determine the scope of the uncanny valley--the point at which a lifelike robot stops attracting people and instead repels them.
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IBM Competition Pushes Student Teams to Tackle Big Data Research Problems
Delft Technical University, Tsinghua University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Texas at Austin are competing in the POWER8 University Challenge...
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Electrical Engineer's Work May Signal Better Wireless Connections
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded University of Texas at Dallas researchers grants totaling more than $2 million to study wireless communications...
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Clemson Researchers and It Scientists Team Up to Tackle Big Data
Clemson University researchers are studying ways to simplify collaboration and improve efficiency in big data analytics.
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Relearning to Speak
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
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Materials That Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have conceived of composite materials that integrate sensing, actuation, computation, and communication.
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A Data Genius Has Figured Out the ltimate Beer-Drinking Road Trip
Data scientist Nathan Yau created a map of the top breweries in the U.S., and then determined the most efficient route to use to visit them.
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