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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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To Jupiter with Junocam!
When NASA's Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, new views of the giant planet's swirling clouds will be sent back to Earth, courtesy of its color camera...
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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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Ornl Process Could Be White Lightning to Electronics Industry
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a virtually perfect single layer of "white graphene" (hexagonal boron nitride).
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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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IBM to Develop Hardware to Wipe Out Errors in Quantum Computing
The race to build a full-blown quantum computer is heating up.
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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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Crispr Gene-Editing Gets Rules. Well, Guidelines, Really
If you're hoping to engineer perfect babies, you're going to have to wait.
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Japan's Venus Orbiter Makes Comeback
Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its first attempt failed.
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Stanford Scientists Develop 'shazam For Earthquakes'
The new Fingerprint And Similarity Thresholding algorithm could transform how seismologists detect temblors not strong enough to register as earthquakes.
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Man With No Limbs Controls Robotic Hand sing Muscle Whispers
Sam Wilson, a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, and supervisor Ravi Vaidyanathan are designing new ways for the human body to control prostheses.
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A Smarter Kind of Crash Test Dummy
Car crash simulations are being run on a supercomputer using a combination of actual vehicle, scene, and medical data by Wake Forest University researchers.
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Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI
Although software designed to play standard board games can now dominate even the best human players, the ancient game of Go has proven a much trickier challenge...
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New Horizons Returns First, Best Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby—and the best close-ups of Pluto...
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