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Google, Facebook Team p on Artificial Intelligence Tech
Google and Facebook researchers are working together to make Facebook's open source PyTorch framework interoperate with Google's custom machine learning chips. ...
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S Weapons Systems Are Easy Cyberattack Targets, New Report Finds
The first step in solving any problem is admitting there is one. But a new report from the US Government Accountability Office finds that the Department of Defense...
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Social Media Data sed to Predict Retail Failure
An international team of researchers has developed a model that can predict with 80% accuracy whether a new business will fail within six months.
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Researchers Raise Alarm Over se of AI in Immigration, Refugee Decision-Making
Researchers in Canada are concerned about government initiatives to replace human decision-making with artificial intelligence regarding immigrants' human rights...
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The Big Hack: How China sed a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate .S. Companies
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming...
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Request for Information on pdate to the 2016 National AI R&D Strategic Plan
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Inside Facebook's Massive Center Storing Your Personal Information
In a vast, dark room, the lights glow a steady green, blue, yellow. I'm not inside the Matrix, but it's not far off.
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Stupid AI: How Humans Can Stop Machines From Falling for Visual Tricks
Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests new ways to prevent artificial intelligence from being visually deceived.
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Software Finds the Best Way to Stick a Mars Landing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed software that could inform the selection of landing sites for scientific expeditions to Mars.
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The Crisis of Election Security
As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
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White House Issues Quantum Computing Strategy and Hosts Public-Private Summit
Federal officials and industry leaders on Monday convened at a White House summit to brainstorm new quantum information science projects.
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Number of Women Studying Computer Skills in .K. Falls by a Third
Fewer female students in the U.K. take the General Certificate of Secondary Education exam in computing or information and communications technology.
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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Report: Machines to Handle Over Half Workplace Tasks by 2025
More than half of all workplace tasks will be completed by machines by 2025, according to a World Economic Forum report.
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Crispr's Epic Patent Fight Changed the Course of Biology
After three bitter years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of the most common methods for editing the DNA in any...
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How to Stop Data Centers from Gobbling p the World's Electricity
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...
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Preventing Exfiltration of Sensitive Docs by Flooding Systems With Hard-to-Detect Fakes
Researchers have proposed protecting important documents by generating so many believable fakes that attackers must either exfiltrate them all or attempt to find...
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What’s in the Sweeping Copyright Bill Just Passed by the European Parliament
Legislation now goes to a three-way negotiation within the EU.
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Developers, Despair: Half Your Time Is Wasted on Bad Code
A study found 31% of developer time is wasted on routine maintenance work, draining $300 billion each year from global GDP.
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