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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI

Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...

Certikos: A Breakthrough Toward Hacker-Resistant Operating Systems
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Certikos: A Breakthrough Toward Hacker-Resistant Operating Systems

Researchers at Yale University have developed CertiKOS, a new operating system they say could lead to a new generation of reliable and secure systems. 

China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines

China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.

World's First Photonic Neural Network ­nveiled
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World's First Photonic Neural Network ­nveiled

Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.

New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher
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New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher

The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of...

Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI
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Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI

Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.

New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyberattacks
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New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyberattacks

Columbia University researchers have developed Shuffler, software that tries to preempt hackers who exploit errors in software code by enabling programs to continuously...

Critical Linux Bug Opens Systems to Compromise
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Critical Linux Bug Opens Systems to Compromise

Researchers from Spain's Polytechnic University of Valencia have found a flaw that enables attackers to obtain root shell on affected Linux systems. The vulnerability...

Security Researchers Want to Hide Your Data in 'cyberfog'
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Security Researchers Want to Hide Your Data in 'cyberfog'

Computer scientists at the U.S. Army Laboratory see "cyberfog" as a powerful new form of data security. They say partially compromised data on a fog network would...

Stanford's First Health++ Hackathon Brings Health Care Innovators Together
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Stanford's First Health++ Hackathon Brings Health Care Innovators Together

Stanford University's inaugural health++ Hackathon involved participation from 257 students, faculty, health professionals, designers, and entrepreneurs to create...

Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research
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Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research

Job opportunities for software development abound, but schools are producing coders of less-than-adequate skill, according to University of Washington professor...

­niversity Researchers Develop Iris-Recognition Technology
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­niversity Researchers Develop Iris-Recognition Technology

Notre Dame University researchers have developed software that can determine the difference between iris scans using a new method. 

Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions ­sing AI-Driven Methods
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Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions ­sing AI-Driven Methods

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities have launched an online service that enables optimal group decisions.  

AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach

A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...

Trump's Plans to Shake ­p the Tech World
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Trump's Plans to Shake ­p the Tech World

Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...

Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings

From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.

Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters

Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...

Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech
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Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech

Researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. have developed LipNet, a new program they say is more accurate at reading lips than human experts.

What Trump Means For Tech
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What Trump Means For Tech

Barack Obama's policies on technology were considered pro-innovation, with a view to using technology expertise to improve government systems and services.

Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth
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Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth

Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying...
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