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Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Love 'super Mario Bros.'
Artificial intelligence researchers find the video game "Super Mario Bros." especially amenable to testing their work.
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Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack
In the mid-'90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world's top player at the game of checkers.
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This Is the Best Way to Take a Selfie, According to Artificial Intelligence
A Stanford University Ph.D. student has trained a neural network to determine what constitutes a good selfie.
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Usf Team Finds New Way of Computing With Interaction-Dependent State Change of Nanomagnets
Researchers have proposed a new form of computing using circular nanomagnets to solve quadratic optimization problems far faster than a conventional computer.
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Closing the Last Loophole For nhackable Quantum Security
The perfection of device-independent quantum cryptography will enable devices that guarantee the messages sent on them remain confidential.
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Ibm's Brain-Like Chip and the Quest For a 'cognitive Planet'
IBM's recently announced TrueNorth chip follows the principles of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing.
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Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions For Digital Age
Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice, and no place, save the Library of Congress, can match the collection at Harvard's Law School Library...
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Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...
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Email Encryption Is Broken
A new study has found technology designed to encrypt and authenticate emails is ineffective.
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Autism Glass Project Kicks Off
The Autism Glass project is a collaborative effort to develop a new Google Glass and facial recognition software to help train autistic children in basic social...
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Researchers Develop a Fast, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface
Researchers say they have developed a non-invasive brain-computer interface that offers the fastest information transfer rate ever achieved.
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How Wireless 'x-Ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall.
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Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet For Anonymous, Encrypted Im
The anonymity network Tor has long been the paranoid standard for privacy online, and the Tor Browser that runs on it remains the best way to use the web while...
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New Traffic App and Disaster Prevention Technology Road Tested
A new app that enables smartphone users to provide feedback on traffic accidents is now available for download.
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Dartmouth Study Illustrates How Game Design Can Reduce Stereotypes and Social Biases
A new Dartmouth College study highlights how games can have beneficial societal effects.
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos For the Blind on Its Own
Facebook's Accessibility Team says it is developing an artificial intelligence tool to automatically describe photos posted on the social network to blind users...
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Smart Glasses Translate Video Into Sound to Help the Blind See
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...
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Now You Can se Emojis to Search For Cute Cat Videos
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...
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