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Taking Radio Astronomy to the Next Level
After its latest upgrade, a radio telescope in Westerbork, the Netherlands, generates 3.7 terabits of data per second, an enormous data-stream that must be processed...
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Baidu's New AI Can Mimic Your Voice After Listening to It for Just One Minute
Researchers at Chinese search giant Baidu say they have developed an artificial intelligence that can learn to precisely mimic a person's voice.
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Hail Technology: Deep Learning May Help Predict When People Need Rides
Researchers have found computers may be better at forecasting demand for taxi and ride-sharing services.
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Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn
Machines are starting to learn tasks on their own. They are identifying faces, recognizing spoken words, reading medical scans and even carrying on their own conversations...
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Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
You can't see the bunny, but the picosecond laser certainly can.
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Latest S Weather Satellite Highlights Forecasting Challenges
The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather-forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on 1 March. The craft will enable...
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Chemists Test Computer-Planned Syntheses for the First Time
Chemists have tested a computer program's ability to plan complete syntheses without human intervention.
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JILA Team Invents New Way to 'See' the Quantum World
A new imaging technique produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock as visual art.
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Hackers' Delight: Does Quantum Computing Spell the End for Encryption?
Today's stalwart encryption methods used to send data securely over the Internet are expected to be no match for the power of tomorrow's quantum computers.
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Virtual Reality Prepares Business Students for Digital Leadership
The ESMT Berlin business school is using virtual reality to teach leadership in a digital world to executives from some of Germany’s biggest companies.
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The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches
I usually write in Google's online word processor Google Docs, even when noting the company's shortcomings.
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Machine Learning Could Improve How Doctors Diagnose Heart Attacks
Researchers say they have used machine learning to teach computers to read cardiac electrical signals and interpret electrocardiograms with greater accuracy.
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HKST Researchers Develop First Innovative Fusion-Based Location Sensing Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a new fusion-based technology to support smart city projects.
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Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS
Earth got a warning shot on January 25, 2016. On that day, Air Force engineers were scheduled to kill off a GPS satellite named SVN-23—the oldest in the navigation...
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Basic Password Guidance Can Dramatically Improve Account Security, Study Shows
Researchers have found that technology users who receive basic password guidance are up to 40% more likely to make their password choices more secure.
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A New Data Trove Could Teach Computers to Tell Blind People What They Need to Know
Researchers are publishing a database of images and challenging the machine-vision community to use it to train machines as effective assistants for those with...
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Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to ltralow-Power Chips
Semiconductor companies are investigating ferroelectrics.
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Paul Allen Wants to Teach Machines Common Sense
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will pour another $125 million into the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to fund a project to teach computers common...
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Enigma: Up Close with a Nazi Cipher Machine
A black metal mechanical device resembling a typewriter sits in a wooden box.
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