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These 3 Guys May Have Figured Out How to Predict Awesome Sunsets
Three young weather enthusiasts in Pennsylvania have developed a new computer model that can predict visually striking sunsets.
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Baidu's Self-Driving Car Takes On Beijing Traffic
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...
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Why Memory and Mimicry Are The Next Big Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
For the last five years the effort to teach computers to think more like humans, to learn how to recognize speech and images on their own has been the goal of ...
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A Bootstrap For STEM
The non-profit Bootstrap program teaches students to understand algebraic functions by helping them program video games.
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Custom AI Programs Take on Top Ranked Humans in Starcraft
In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.
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Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click
Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers...
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Teaching Computers How to Give Cricket Commentary
Indian researchers have used machine-learning techniques to generate text-based cricket commentary with an accuracy rate of 90 percent.
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Chinese Researchers Unveil Brain-Powered Car
Chinese researchers from Nankai University have spent the last two years developing a mind-controlled car.
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As Aging Population Grows, So Do Robotic Health Aides
Roboticists and doctors deployment of innovations in computerized, robotic, and Internet-connected technologies to help aging adults stay independent longer.
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What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks?
A new system uses machine-learning algorithms to construct and animate three-dimensional models of celebrities based on large numbers of photographs.
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Want a Computer That Never Crashes? Don't Let Bugs Freak It Out
Developers' perception of software bugs must shift from something that must be found and removed at all costs to an unavoidable fact of life.
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Here's What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
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Virtual Reality Room Facilitates New Research
Brown University's YURT Ultimate Reality Theater creates images viewable with three-dimensional (3D) glasses.
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Twitter Data Can Make Roads Safer During Inclement Weather
University at Buffalo researchers are examining how weather-related tweets can improve computer models of driving during inclement weather.
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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Software-Defined Batteries Take Charge
Researchers are exploring a new generation of batteries that rely on software to define performance.
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Untraceable Communication Guaranteed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled an untraceable text-messaging system designed to foil even the most powerful adversaries.
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Facebook's New Tools to Help the Blind Navigate Social Media
Engineer Matt King is blind and works on Facebook's accessibility team, which helps the service make it easier for the visually impaired to interact with it.
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