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Algorithm Clones Van Gogh's Artistic Style and Pastes It Onto Other Images, Movies
The nature of artistic style is something of a mystery to most people.
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Nasa's Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered
NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets—the single largest finding of planets to date.
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Johns Hopkins Scientist Programs Robot For 'soft Tissue' Surgery
Researchers have developed the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot surgeon, which they say can adjust to the subtle movement of soft tissue to execute precise suturing...
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Free-Standing Two-Legged Robot Conquers Terrain
University of Michigan researchers report an unsupported bipedal robot can walk down steep slopes, through a thin layer of snow, and over uneven and unstable ground...
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Gene Therapy's First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here
A treatment now pending approval in Europe will be the first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure for a deadly disease.
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How Nasa's Next Big Telescope Could Take Pictures of Another Earth
Can NASA's next big space telescope take a picture of an alien Earth-like planet orbiting another star?
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A New Mobile Phone App For Grassroots Mapping
Researchers have developed a mobile phone application that uses geographic data to map landscapes and help humanitarian rescue workers in disaster-struck regions...
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Ais Are Starting to Learn Like Human Babies By Grasping and Poking Objects
A project at Carnegie Mellon University could enable artificial intelligences to learn in a more human way.
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Building AI Is Hard--So Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Facebook is building artificial intelligence algorithms that can help build AI algorithms by automating much of the trial and error that goes into their testing...
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Researchers at schools such as the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing artificial intelligence to relieve the burden of teaching assistants.
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Enceladus Jets: Surprises in Starlight
During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus...
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Computer Gleans Chemical Insight from Lab Notebook Failures
Did your experiment fail? Don't bin the data just yet—they could be useful.
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Building AI Is Hard‹so Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Deep neural networks are remaking the Internet. Able to learn very human tasks by analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these artificially intelligent systems...
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After Moore's Law: Predicting The Future Beyond Silicon Chips
For several decades now, Georgia Tech professor Tom Conte has been studying how to improve computers: "How do we make them faster and more efficient next time around...
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Moore's Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks For a Successor
For decades, the computer industry has been guided by a faith that engineers would always find a way to make the components on computer chips smaller, faster and...
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Google, -M to Build Digital Tools For Flint Water Crisis
Researchers at Google and the University of Michigan's Flint and Ann Arbor campuses will develop digital tools to help Flint, MI, manage its water crisis.
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Skintrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad
SkinTrack is a new wearable technology that enables continuous touch tracking on the user's hands and arms.
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White House Worries About Bad AI Coding
The White House released a report this week suggesting it may be important to develop ethical frameworks for designing automated computer systems.
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Before Heading to Mars, Nasa's Valkyrie Humanoid Lands at MIT
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has delivered a humanoid robot to the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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