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Facebook's Cyborg Virtual Assistant Is Learning From Its Trainers
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...
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Key Benchtop Testing Planned For Wireless Brain Sensor
Researchers are starting to test wireless transmitter prototypes as part of the investigational BrainGate Neural Interface System.
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.s. and China Seek Arms Deal For Cyberspace
The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will...
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Whoa. Microsoft Is sing Linux to Run Its Cloud
Microsoft has cozied up to the open source community in recent years.
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Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch
Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.
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How Tomorrow's Battles Will Be Fought in Augmented Reality
For nearly three decades, Bob Stone has worked in the field of virtual reality, and he now sees the technology's applications becoming a reality.
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That
The California HealthCare Foundation offered $100,000 for an algorithm that would allow artificial intelligence to detect retinal damage due to diabetic retinopathy...
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The Dismal State of America's Decade-Old Voting Machines
Almost all U.S. states are using technologically outdated touchscreen and optical-scan voting systems that are at least 10 years old, according to a report.
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.
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Study Names the Five Most Hackable Vehicles
A PT&C|LWG Forensic Consulting Services study has named the top five vehicles most susceptible to hacking.
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Egyptian Professor Chipping Away at Energy Efficiency
A Brown University professor is studying ways to increase the energy efficiency of computing systems without sacrificing performance.
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ta Research Will Lead to More Efficient Computer Modeling
A group of engineers are developing hybrid software and hardware approaches to testing electric machines during the design stage.
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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Brain-Controlled Smart Home Lets You Turn the Tv On By Thinking
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.
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Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
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