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Want a Robot that Can Really Feel? Give It Whiskers
Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming...
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.
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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers...
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Inside Earth, Visualized: Hd Video Models Planet's Core
Were it not for our Earth's magnetic field, the planet would be bombarded by charged particles from the sun.
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Face Scans For S Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step...
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Lights, Camera, Crispr: Biologists se Gene Editing to Store Movies in Dna
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
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First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient...
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Hackers Find 'ideal Testing Ground' For Attacks: Developing Countries
The attack had the hallmarks of something researchers had dreaded for years: malicious software using artificial intelligence that could lead to a new digital arms...
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More Progress on Carbon Nanotube Processors: A 2.8ghz Ring Oscillator
Back in 2012, I had the pleasure of visiting the IBM Watson research center.
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Sun's Gravity Could Power Interstellar Video Streaming
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help S Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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Lhc Physicists nveil a Charming New Particle
Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new kind of heavy particle, they announced...
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Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Darpa's Ex-Leader's Speculative Dream of Mind-Melding Empathy
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...
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Juno Shatters Scientists' Jupiter Theories in Just 365 Days
Last July 4th, NASA's Juno spacecraft slowed its record breaking pace just enough to get caught in the pull of Jupiter's gravity.
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