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Nasa Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian...
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...
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Europe's Largest Data Observatory Turns Big Data Into Big Images
This week marks the official opening of Imperial College London's KPMG Data Observatory, the largest such facility in Europe.
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Google Aims to Make Vr Hardware Irrelevant Before It Even Gets Going
Google and Facebook are pushing virtual-reality technology along two different lines.
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With AI Advances, Facebook Tests M, Your Newest Assistant
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer says the volume of data Facebook serves to users' News Feeds is increasing about 50 percent annually.
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Into the ncanny Valley: 80 Robot Faces Ranked By Creepiness
Recent experiments sought to determine the scope of the uncanny valley--the point at which a lifelike robot stops attracting people and instead repels them.
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IBM Competition Pushes Student Teams to Tackle Big Data Research Problems
Delft Technical University, Tsinghua University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Texas at Austin are competing in the POWER8 University Challenge...
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Electrical Engineer's Work May Signal Better Wireless Connections
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded University of Texas at Dallas researchers grants totaling more than $2 million to study wireless communications...
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Clemson Researchers and It Scientists Team Up to Tackle Big Data
Clemson University researchers are studying ways to simplify collaboration and improve efficiency in big data analytics.
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Relearning to Speak
New systems can help you not only learn to understand a second language, but how to pronounce it correctly.
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Materials That Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have conceived of composite materials that integrate sensing, actuation, computation, and communication.
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A Data Genius Has Figured Out the ltimate Beer-Drinking Road Trip
Data scientist Nathan Yau created a map of the top breweries in the U.S., and then determined the most efficient route to use to visit them.
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Data Mining Reveals the Extent of China's Ghost Cities
China has experienced a tremendous amount of urban growth in the last 30 years, yet many of the newly built residential areas remain vacant.
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Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Love 'super Mario Bros.'
Artificial intelligence researchers find the video game "Super Mario Bros." especially amenable to testing their work.
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Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack
In the mid-'90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world's top player at the game of checkers.
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This Is the Best Way to Take a Selfie, According to Artificial Intelligence
A Stanford University Ph.D. student has trained a neural network to determine what constitutes a good selfie.
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Usf Team Finds New Way of Computing With Interaction-Dependent State Change of Nanomagnets
Researchers have proposed a new form of computing using circular nanomagnets to solve quadratic optimization problems far faster than a conventional computer.
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Closing the Last Loophole For nhackable Quantum Security
The perfection of device-independent quantum cryptography will enable devices that guarantee the messages sent on them remain confidential.
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Ibm's Brain-Like Chip and the Quest For a 'cognitive Planet'
IBM's recently announced TrueNorth chip follows the principles of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing.
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