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Patients Favor Changing the Genes of the Next Generation with Crispr
Jeff Carroll inherited the DNA mutation that causes Huntington's disease.
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Zero to Expert in Eight Hours: These Robots Can Learn For Themselves
A yellow robotic arm pauses over a pile of metal cylinders, snaps a photo, then proceeds to confidently pick pieces out of the jumble.
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge niversity
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...
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Telepresence Robot For the Disabled Takes Directions from Brain Signals
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals.
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App to Improve Monitoring of Psychotic Patients' Mental State and Treatment Adherence
A new mobile app enables doctors to remotely monitor psychotic outpatients' mental states and improve their adherence to treatment plans.
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Google Tech to Help Autonomous Cars Communicate With Pedestrians
Google has been granted a patent on technology that would attempt to help its autonomous vehicles communicate their "intentions" to pedestrians.
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'improving' Humans with Customized Genes Sparks Argument Among Scientists
"Today we sense we are close to be being able to alter human heredity," Nobel Laureate and California Institute of Technology virologist David Baltimore said December...
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Statisticians' Plea: Please Pick Up the Phone
In the era of big data, when demand for statistics is higher than ever, a shadow of danger looms over the numbers revolution: People are increasingly refusing to...
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Online Tracking By News Organizations Is Excessive, Say Researchers
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that news organizations permit far more use of third-party tracking than the average website.
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Teaching AI to Play Atari Will Help Robots Make Sense of Our World
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, andBreakout. And they're getting pretty good.
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'li-Fi 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi'
A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.
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Why Bartenders Have to Ignore Some Signals
Bielefeld University researchers are leading a study into how a robotic bartender can understand human communication and appropriately serve drinks socially.
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle Lhc Data Deluge
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors For Genome Editing
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...
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Everything You Need to Know About Crispr Gene Editing's Monster Year
Muscle-bound beagles. Hornless cows. Better potatoes. Genetically modified human embryos.
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The Most Important Number in Climate Change
The furious majesty of a thunderstorm defies computer simulation.
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Smile, Frown, Grimace, and Grin--Your Facial Expression Is the Next Frontier in Big Data
Affectiva co-founder Rana el Kaliouby sees the use of computers to interpret human facial expressions as the next logical step in computer-user interaction.
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No, Nsa Phone Spying Has Not Ended
At 11:59 P.M. on Saturday night, the U.S. National Security Agency supposedly yanked the cord on its bulk telephone records collection, thereby ending an expansive...
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Strange Star Likely Swarmed By Comets
A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behavior.
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