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Opportunity's Parting Shot Was a Beautiful Panorama
Over 29 days last spring, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final...
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niversity of Washington Team Creates Voice-Controlled Robot to Help People Eat
A voice-controlled robot can feed pieces of fruit to humans on command.
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DeepMind is Asking How AI Helped Turn the Internet into an Echo Chamber
Researchers have analyzed how different recommendation algorithms can accelerate or decelerate filter bubbles and echo chambers online.
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China Is Catching p to the S in A.I. Research, Fast
At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from...
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Cooler Screens' Display Cases Scan Your Face to Size p Buying Habits
Chicago-based Cooler Screens has developed a facial-profiling system that tries to guess what consumers will buy next based on how they appear in front of a refrigerated...
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Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System
An international research team warned of a critical backdoor flaw in Switzerland's new Internet voting system.
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Tonight's Dinner? In a Cooler-Sized Robot That Knows Where You Live
Venture-backed startups have been dispatching cooler-sized robots in cities around the U.S. to deliver food and groceries to customers' doorsteps.
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Shuttering of NSA Surveillance Program Emboldens Privacy Groups
The potential end to a controversial National Security Agency phone records collection program is energizing privacy groups and lawmakers who have long called for...
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How Quantum Sensing Is Changing the Way We See the World
Imagine a world where you can find out exactly what lies under your feet, get advanced warning of volcanic eruptions, look around corners or into rooms, and detect...
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How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world, traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor. The data...
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AI Efforts at Large Companies May Be Hindered by Poor Quality Data
Poor-quality customer and business data may be keeping companies from leveraging digital tools to reduce costs, increase revenue, and stay competitive.
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ltra-Low Power Chips Help Make Small Robots More Capable
A new ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the human brain could help small robots collaborate and learn from their experiences.
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NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
The U.S. National Security Agency has chosen to open source the cybersecurity tool Ghidra, a reverse-engineering platform that takes "compiled" software and "decompiles"...
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Self-Driving Cars Risk 'Future Errors' Due to Difficulty Detecting Darker Skin Tones
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that state-of-the-art object-detection systems are better at detecting people with lighter skin tones...
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India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From AI
The Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, is working with Google artificial intelligence scientists to automate the identification of diabetic retinopathy.
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New Zealand Farmers Have New Tool for Herding Sheep: Drones That Bark Like Dogs
New Zealand farmers are using drones to herd livestock.
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Israeli Moon Lander 'On the Right Path' Despite Recent Glitch
Israel's first lunar lander, nicknamed Beresheet, is back on course for the Moon despite recently missing a planned orbit-raising engine burn due to an unexpected...
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Scientists Put Ichthyosaurs in Virtual Water Tanks
Researchers have used computer simulations and three-dimensional models to learn more about how Mesozoic-era ichthyosaurs swam.
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