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Artificial Intelligence Robots: Why Human Baby Brains Are Smarter Than AI
Machines are capable of understanding speech, recognizing faces and driving cars safely, making recent technological advancements seem impressively powerful.
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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...
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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.
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World's First Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Virtual Reality App Makes Haptics as Immersive as Visuals
Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application and a haptic chair that enable users to enhance their virtual experience with customizable...
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Accelerating Cancer Research With Deep Learning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...
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Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
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