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Why the World's Top Computing Experts Are Worrying About Your Data
Many of the world's top computer science experts met last week to determine how the widespread collection of data about consumers can be prevented from causing...
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ber Project May Improve Autonomous Cars' Vision
Uber is collaborating with the University of Arizona on a mapping and safety project for self-driving cars.
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Our Number's p: Machines Will Do Maths We'll Never nderstand
Some mathematicians think the field of mathematics is approaching a limit that cannot yield further breakthroughs without computerized assistance.
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Computers Can Predict Schizophrenia Based on How a Person Talks
A new algorithmic analysis technique can identify the disjointed patterns of speech considered a hallmark of schizophrenia.
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Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.
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Tool Makes It Easier to Evade Online Censors
A new tool could offer a way around censorship technologies enabled by repressive governments.
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Super-Intelligent Machines Spawned By Ai? Execs Aren't Worried
Technology experts at an artificial intelligence-themed event were dismissive of scenarios in which super-intelligent machines eventually surpass human intelligence...
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Electrical Circuit Made of Gel Can Repair Itself
University of Texas at Austin professor Guihua Yu and colleagues have used a new gel with a unique combination of properties to fabricate a self-healing electrical...
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The Growing Need For More Women Cybersleuths
The recent rash of online hacks highlights a mounting need for cybersecurity professionals, including women.
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.s. Court Rules For Government Over Nsa Metadata Collection Program
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge's ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial...
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Nine Real Nasa Technologies in 'the Martian'
Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia.
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Iit-Bombay Team Creates Program to Detect Drunk Text Message Writers
A new program can detect if someone is drunk by reading their text messages.
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avs Learn to Fly Solo
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Robust Robotics Group want to teach unmanned aerial vehicles and other robots to think for themselves...
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Before a Robot Takes Your Job, You'll Be Working Side By Side
That's the takeaway from a new report by Forrester Research, Inc.
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Should Cops Be Allowed to Take Control of Self-Driving Cars?
A few lines in a seemingly routine RAND Corp. report on the future of technology and law enforcement last week raised a provocative question: Should police have...
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MIT Builds a 3D Printer That Can se 10 Materials at Once
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have built a three-dimensional printer capable of building objects with 10 photopolymer materials.
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Robots Learn to Make Pancakes From Wikihow Articles
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions.
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Vint Cerf: 'sometimes I'm Terrified' By the Iot
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf says he finds certain aspects of the Internet of Things particularly worrisome.
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Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...
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