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A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle
A self-taught Belgian programmer has solved a puzzle required to open a 1999 time capsule at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Prototyping Faster with Laser Cutters
Laser cutting tools could outperform three-dimensional printers at prototyping stretchables, wearables.
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The Microbots Are on Their Way
A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has developed tiny robots, thousands of which can fit side by side on a single silicon wafer.
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Jaguar Land Rover Planning to Allow Helpful Car Drivers to Earn Cryptocurrency
U.K. automaker Jaguar Land Rover is testing software that will allow drivers of its vehicles to earn virtual currency as an incentive for sharing data.
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Dreams of biquitous Social Robots Still Aren't Coming True
The closure of consumer robotics firms previously considered potentially game-changing has diminished industry prospects of social robots eventually achieving mainstream...
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Addressing Quantum Error Correction
Seeking to prevent premature decoherence of qubits.
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Partnership on AI: Algorithms Aren't Ready to Automate Pretrial Bail Hearings
The Partnership on AI has released a report declaring the algorithms now in use to automate the pre-trial bail process unfit to do so.
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Facial Recognition Software Meets Its Match: Barnyard Animals
Attempts to identify barnyard animals via facial recognition are complicated by the software's difficulty in distinguishing between animals.
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Robotic Tube for Surgery Autonomously Navigates Inside a Beating Heart
Harvard Medical School researchers have developed a robotic catheter that can autonomously navigate inside a beating heart.
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Fitness Monitors, Smartwatches are Not Medical Devices
Manufacturers may blur the distinctions, but they're important.
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Cryptocurrency Mining Malware ses Leaked NSA Exploits to Spread Across Enterprise Networks
Malware is being used to infiltrate corporate networks and hijack computers into running mining code to produce cryptocurrency.
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Academics Hide Humans From Surveillance Cameras With 2D Prints
Researchers have developed a technique of using simple two-dimensional images to render wearers invisible to surveillance cameras.
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AI That Spots Inequality Could Monitor Living Conditions in Cities
Researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to detect inequalities in four U.K. cities using a combination of government statistics and images from Google...
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Letting the Laboratory Drive
A self-driving laboratory is a kind of robot scientist that uses sensors to become aware of its environment and artificial intelligence to autonomously make decisions...
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Questioning Quantum
Researchers hunt for ways to keep quantum computing honest.
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Geomagnetic Jerks Finally Reproduced, Explained
Researchers have created a computer model that explains anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field.
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In African Villages, These Phones Become ltrasound Scanners
Doctors are using a hand-held ultrasound scanner to provide medical imaging to residents of remote African villages.
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Mapping the World in 3D Will Let s Paint Streets With Augmented Reality
The U.K. startup Scape provides a visual positioning service that uses global positioning systems and multiple camera images to localize users.
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The Robots That Manage the Managers
New artificial intelligence-driven coaching apps and platforms aim to provide basic training in traditional supervisory skills such as delivering feedback and delegating...
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