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At China Online Coming-Out Party, Beijing Spells Out Internet Control Ambition
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At China Online Coming-Out Party, Beijing Spells Out Internet Control Ambition

China showed governments and the planet's biggest tech firms last week its vision for global Internet governance—clean, controlled and choreographed.

Microsoft Machine Learning Tech Adds Captions to Images
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Microsoft Machine Learning Tech Adds Captions to Images

Microsoft is leveraging its machine learning research to build software that automatically captions images. 

Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors

New software automatically ranks authors and creators whose work is in the public domain by how likely they are to be of interest to academics and the public. 

Automakers Aim to Drive Away Car Computer Hackers
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Automakers Aim to Drive Away Car Computer Hackers

Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance.

How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road

A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.​

Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software

Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...

Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa

Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa.

Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'

The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.

Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.i.a.
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Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.i.a.

The artist who created the enigmatic Kryptos, a puzzle-in-a-sculpture that has driven code breakers to distraction since it was installed 24 years ago in a courtyard...

Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow

Walking in crowds means predicting the future.

Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'
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Georgia Tech Professor Proposes Alternative to 'turing Test'

Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark Riedl has developed a more rigorous way to evaluate the intelligence of a computer than the Turing Test. 

Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages
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Rutgers Engineers Create Smartphone App to Cut Risk of Power Outages

Rutgers University researchers have developed a smartphone app designed to help engineers respond to widespread power outages. 

Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches
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Evolution Software Looks Beyond the Branches

PhyloNet is an open source Java-based program that accounts for both the horizontal and vertical inheritance of genetic material among genomes. 

Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays
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Software to Automatically Outline Bones in X-Rays

Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing software that can automatically pick out the shapes of bones in X-rays. 

Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14

Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.

IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future
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IBM Shares Plans For Supercomputing Future

IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels. 

Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' ­sing Light to Send Data
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Researchers Test First 'smart Spaces' ­sing Light to Send Data

Dartmouth College professor Xia Zhou and colleagues are experimenting with "smart spaces" featuring ceiling-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and light sensors...

Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World
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Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World

The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory will work to develop a video camera that can capture images in 360 degrees. 

Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach

As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...

Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander

After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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