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Google's Project Gameface Lets You Control Video Games with Blinks, Smiles
Google's Project Gameface platform allows gamers to play videogames using head movements and facial gestures.
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Researchers Create Robot Capable of Cleaning Your Room, Doing Your Laundry
An international team of researchers has created the TidyBot robot, which can be commanded to clear spaces of objects.
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Parashar Receives 2023 HPDC Achievement Award
The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing named Manish Parashar to receive the 2023 Achievement Award in High-Performance...
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Jellybeans: A Sweet Solution for Overcrowded Circuitry in Quantum Computer Chips
Engineers designed "jellybean" quantum dots to enhance quantum processing by physically spreading apart quantum bits without breaking communication between them...
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Centipede Robots with More Legs Better at Walking Over Bumps
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that multi-legged robots with more legs were better at navigating rough terrain than those with fewer legs...
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Twitter Taps NBC Ad Chief to Take Over as CEO From Musk
Yaccarino will have her hands full from day one on an operational side, but also in dealing with the mercurial Elon Musk.
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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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Dongarra Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jack Dongarra at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his pioneering...
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Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving quantum circuits.
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Germany's Plan to Tackle Rapidly Aging Workforce: Recruit Robots
Germany is looking to digitalization to help solve a labor shortage crisis due to its aging population.
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Robot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough
A robot fish created by scientists at the U.K.'s University of Bristol could open up underwater exploration.
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Coding Instructors Are Adding AI to Their Lessons – Before AI Replaces Them
Coding schools like General Assembly are preparing engineers and data analysts to use ChatGPT.
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Businesses Not Embracing AI Could Fall Behind, Warns Tech Executive
AI could be used to name products or review legal documents, said Airtable CFO Ambereen Toubassy.
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Rust Never Sleeps
How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language.
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How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough.
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Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do
Scientists found computer vision models can be trained to produce more stable, predictable visual representations, similar to those humans learn through perceptual...
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Snake-Like EELS Slithers into Robotics Terrain
A self-propelled snake-like robot developed by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can map and navigate previously inaccessible terrain autonomously...
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Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones
Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.
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