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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Israeli Scientists Invent Cannon For Entangled Photon Clusters
Scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a device that can produce large clusters of entangled photons on demand.
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Hackers Infect Army of Cameras, Dvrs For Massive Internet Attacks
Attackers used an army of hijacked security cameras and video recorders to launch several massive internet attacks last week, prompting fresh concern about the...
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Farewell Rosetta: Esa Mission to End on Comet Surface
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission will come to a dramatic end on Friday,
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Catching Dust
The ancient Egyptians believed that the universe emerged from an ocean called Nun, boundless and inert.
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Tracking Honey Bees With Big Data
Researchers at Grand Valley State University are using technology to study the nationwide decline of the honeybee population.
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New 'artificial Synapses' Pave Way For Brain-Like Computers
Researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed electronic components that could lead to significant advances in brain-inspired computing.
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Computer Engineers Boost App Speeds By More Than 9%
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new method to boost the speed of computer applications by more than 9%.
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable.
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Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
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'missing Link' Found in the Development of Bioelectronic Medicines
Researchers have demonstrated that memristors could be the missing link in the development of implants that use signals from the brain to treat medical conditions...
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Comet Crash: A Guide to Rosetta's Big Finale
The Rosetta comet orbiter will meet a sticky end on 30 September, but not before a finale that should see it gather the most detailed images yet of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—or...
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Quantum Computing a Step Closer to Reality
Australian National University researchers say they have taken another step toward creating quantum computers by stopping light in a new experiment.
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Students' Web App Seeks to Simplify, Modernize Voter Registration
Votemate is a new Web application that could make it easier for people to confirm they are registered to vote.
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Why Human Brains Hold the Key to Smarter Artificial Intelligence
The European Union-funded INSIGHT project has gained a new understanding of how people solve problems, which one day could lead to smarter robots.
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Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
Harvard University researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm to train a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents....
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.
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Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse
Microsoft is embarking on a major upgrade of its Azure systems.
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Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles's leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might...
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