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AI Football Manager Knows How Different Teams Play the Game
Who really calls the shots in team sports?
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Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time
You might be at work, but that hardly means you are working.
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Crackdowns Haven't Stopped the Dark Web's $100m Yearly Drug Sales
A new Carnegie Mellon University study suggests law enforcement take-downs of online drug markets have largely failed to dent the traffic in drugs on the Dark Web...
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The Rise of the Robo-Meteorologist
Microsoft researchers Ashish Kapoor and Eric Horvitz are using machine learning to make more accurate weather predictions over a 24-hour period.
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Could a Pen Change How We Diagnose Brain Function?
Researchers have used artificial intelligence and a digital pen to diagnose dementia earlier than ever before.
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Flickr Photo Data sed to Predict People's Locations
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can predict people's location based on the photos they upload to the Flickr file-sharing website.
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Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17—the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.
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'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?
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A Machine in the Co-Pilot's Seat
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...
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Computer-Human Hybrids Could Be Best at Scanning For Danger
In A world of algorithms, there are still a few places where humans reign supreme.
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Go On – Bend, Punch, and Step On This Transistor
Researchers at Japan's AIST and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed stretchable, tough electronics that could be incorporated into clothing,...
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Paving the Way for a Faster Quantum Computer
University of Vienna researchers have demonstrated a new quantum computing technique in which operations occur without a well-defined order. Researchers say the...
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Lovin' Their Elevator: Why Germans Are Loopy About Their Revolving Lifts
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart's town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.
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For Virtual-Reality Movies, Old Methods Don't Fit New Medium
I'm standing on the bow of what looks to be a sunken pirate ship.
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Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
The New York Times publishes over 300 articles, blog posts and interactive stories a day.
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DARPA Wants to Transform Vacuum Electronics For Superior Communications, Data Transmissions
DARPA wants to improve the performance and reliability of vacuum electronic devices, critical components of defense and civilian systems that require high power...
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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its...
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France and Spain Team Up to Jumpstart Europe's Exascale Computing Ambitions
France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center have announced a high-performance computing partnership to...
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Depth-Sensing Camera Gleans 3-D Info in Bright Sunlight and Darkness
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Toronto have created a mathematical model to help address a major problem of depth-sensing cameras...
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