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Tv Show Gives Computers a Lead in Solving Problems
Researchers have taught artificially intelligent machines to study the TV show "CSI" and identify the perpetrator in each episode.
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A Robotic Spy Among the Fish
Researchers have developed a miniature robot that can integrate perfectly into schools of zebrafish.
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Slac Knows How the niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...
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Chip-Based Sensors With Incredible Sensitivity
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created an optical whispering gallery mode resonator.
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Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors
Researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to enhance Hasbro's Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with...
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Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a technique to transfer quantum information between systems that are encoded in different ways...
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Fbi Again Finds Itself nable to nlock a Gunman's Cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what...
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Choreography With Computers
Singapore Management University professor Akshat Kumar is developing computational methods for choreographing the movements of autonomous cars and ships.
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Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery
Computer science researchers recently helped to make a major advance in astronomy, as scientists announced last month they observed two neutron stars colliding....
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Touch-Sensitive Avatar-Robotic Arm Based on Real-Time Haptics
Researchers say they have developed a "real-time-avatar-robotic arm" that transmits sound, vision, and tactile sensations to remotely located users.
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Killer Robots: Australia's AI Leaders rge Pm to Support a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
A letter from 122 members of the Australian artificial intelligence research community urges Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to support for a ban on...
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Nanoscale 'abacus' ses Pulses of Light Instead of Wooden Beads to Perform Calculations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale optical "abacus" that uses light signals to perform arithmetic computation.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.
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Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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A Third of the Internet Is nder Attack
Researchers completing the first large-scale analysis of victims of Internet denial-of-service attacks worldwide found about a third of the IPv4 address space was...
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How to Ensure AI Is Good For Girls: A Robot For Every Child
Rapid progress is being made in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, as milestones are being passed in a wide range of areas.
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