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China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
America is now home to the world's speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
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Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions
An international team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor that can diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions.
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Study Finds Daily Cycles in Our Thinking Patterns
Researchers have found that a person's mode of thinking changes at different times of the day and follows a 24-hour pattern.
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Are We Alone in the niverse?
Say goodbye to ET, Marvin the Martian and Yoda. Humans are probably the only intelligent life in the universe, researchers from the University of Oxford have reported...
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NASA Asks: Will We Know Life When We See It?
In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy.
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A .S. Machine Recaptures the Supercomputing Crown
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin
A new variety of electronic sensor made from shape-memory polymers was modeled after whiskers.
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Faster Analysis of Medical Images
A new machine learning algorithm can register brain scans and other three-dimensional images about 1,000 times faster than previously possible using novel learning...
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How Deep Learning Is Making Computers Better at Guessing Your Passwords
A machine learning technique can make computers up to 24% better at guessing passwords.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps p on the Ryugu Asteroid
Here's the mission for Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft in a nutshell: Fly to a carbon-rich asteroid between the orbits of Earth and Mars, study it for a year and a...
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Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
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You've Got Mail!
And that's not all. Email is not what it used to be.
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Autonomous Vehicles: U of T Researchers Make Advances With New Algorithm
Researchers working with Uber developed an algorithm combining object detection, tracking over time, and prediction to improve maneuver planning by driverless vehicles...
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Targeting the Engine Room of the Cancer Cell
Researchers have created a computational framework to match individual tumors with drugs or drug combinations most likely to destroy them.
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4 Tweets Can Reveal the Identity of an Anonymous Troll
Four geotagged posts are sufficient to identify an anonymous account from a telephone company's database of customers.
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New Data Could Help Siri, Alexa Know When They're Being Unhelpful
A new dataset is designed to train artificial intelligence systems to recognize when they lack sufficient information to answer questions accurately.
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The Supreme Court Takes On the Police Use of Cellphone Records
The Supreme Court has handed down what may be the most important privacy case of the digital era, ruling on Friday that the government cannot force cellphone service...
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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