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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Mind Meld: The Genius of Swarm Thinking
Iain Couzin does not have fond memories of field research.
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Evidence Emerges That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All
Back in 2011, the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin paid a cool $10 million for the world's first commercial quantum computer from a Canadian start up called D-Wave...
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Humanity's Forgotten Return to Africa Revealed in Dna
Call it humanity's unexpected U-turn.
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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Humans Came Long After Aliens, Scientist Suggests
I've never thought of humanity as being especially advanced.
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Silicon Brains That Think as Fast as a Fly Can Smell
Researchers in Germany have discovered what they say is a way to get computers to do more than execute all the steps of a problem-solving calculation as fast as...
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'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...
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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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Which Genes Did We Get From Neandertals?
Tens of thousands of years ago along the balmy Mediterranean coast, or in some desert oasis in the Middle East, a hunky Neandertal male lusted after a modern human...
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Beams of Sound Immerse You in Music Others Can't Hear
If you're sick of wading through a clogged email inbox or scrolling through endless Twitter timelines, Jörg Müller has a more fun way of sifting through your messages...
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Watching Electrons Move Within an Atom
Can scientists image the motion of electrons inside atoms?
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More on Deepmind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google’s Search Team
Google has been buying a lot of crazy stuff lately.
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How Real Is Spike Jonze's 'her'? Artificial Intelligence Experts Weigh In
In Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated, futuristic film 'Her,' computers compose music, carry on seamless conversations with humans, organize emails instantaneously,...
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A 96-Antenna System Tests the Next Generation of Wireless
Even as the world's carriers build out the latest wireless infrastructure, known as 4G LTE, a new apparatus bristling with 96 antennas taking shape at a Rice University...
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The Race to Buy the Human Brains Behind Deep Learning Machines
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.
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dacity Founder: Moocs Can Help the Economy, Even If They Can't Replace College
Sebastian Thrun was instrumental in building Google's self-driving car and Glass projects, and helped launch the company's Google X wing to spearhead "moonshot"...
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China's Jade Rabbit Rover May Be Victim of Moon Dust
A plucky bunny on the moon may have just met an untimely end.
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The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking are playing poker together.
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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.
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