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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever
On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the...
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Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer
Cells are basically tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly.
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People Remain Calm as the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests
University at Buffalo researchers found despite some violent acts, most people will be helpful to others as the world ends.
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New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
Researchers have developed an intelligent routing algorithm designed to minimize the occurrence of spontaneous traffic jams across a roadway network.
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Machine Learning Opens p New Ways to Help Disabled People
Companies are developing and launching machine-learning technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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Quadruped Robot Exhibits Spontaneous Changes in Step with Speed
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have successfully demonstrated that a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns...
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How to Hunt For a Black Hole with a Telescope the Size of Earth
Here's how to catch a black hole. First, spend many years enlisting eight of the top radio observatories across four continents to join forces for an unprecedented...
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Atomic Clocks Make Best Measurement Yet of Relativity of Time
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
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Research Leads to a Golden Discovery For Wearable Technology
Missouri S&T researchers have developed a way to "grow" thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon and use them as substrates on which to grow other...
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Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working to make the process of a robot autonomously grasping an object easier.
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Wpi Researcher Wants to Transform Your Commute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Yanhua Li has proposed an alternative urban transit system that uses a hub-and-spoke configuration with shared shuttles...
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A Professor Built an AI Teaching Assistant For His Courses--and It Could Shape the Future of Education
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ashok Goel has created an artificially intelligent teaching assistant.
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Mathematicians Create Warped Worlds in Virtual Reality
"It feels like the entire universe is within a sphere that is maybe within a couple metres' radius," says topologist Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University...
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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Origami-Inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover
The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout.
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Inside the Hunt For Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election, Tillmann Werner was sitting down...
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Bringing Augmented Reality to Warehouses
Researchers have created PickAR, a headset that uses AR technology to overlay picking information so warehouses can find and process orders with greater efficiency...
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Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day
As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics—Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars...
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