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Ic Professors and Grad Students Pair Infants With Robots
Ithaca College researchers, as part of their ongoing "Tots on Bots" study, are nearing the end of their first session with five-month-old infants.
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w Researchers Estimate Poverty and Wealth From Cellphone Metadata
Researchers have developed a method for estimating the distribution of wealth and poverty in an area by studying metadata from calls and texts made on cellphones...
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle Lhc Data Deluge
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors For Genome Editing
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...
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Everything You Need to Know About Crispr Gene Editing's Monster Year
Muscle-bound beagles. Hornless cows. Better potatoes. Genetically modified human embryos.
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Data Mining Reveals How Smiling Evolved During a Century of Yearbook Photos
A new machine-vision strategy for data-mining a massive database of high school yearbook photos has been pioneered at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Sandia's Panther Predicts Movement
A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed software that will enable security data analysts to work more efficiently with big data sets.
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The Most Important Number in Climate Change
The furious majesty of a thunderstorm defies computer simulation.
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Smile, Frown, Grimace, and Grin--Your Facial Expression Is the Next Frontier in Big Data
Affectiva co-founder Rana el Kaliouby sees the use of computers to interpret human facial expressions as the next logical step in computer-user interaction.
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No, Nsa Phone Spying Has Not Ended
At 11:59 P.M. on Saturday night, the U.S. National Security Agency supposedly yanked the cord on its bulk telephone records collection, thereby ending an expansive...
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Genome Editing: 7 Facts About a Revolutionary Technology
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.
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Email Security Improving, but Far From Perfect
A new report observes that email security has improved significantly in the past two years, although widespread issues remain.
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‘outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem
Three computer scientists have solved a problem central to a dozen far-flung mathematical fields.
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Nsa to Shut Down Bulk Phone Surveillance Program By Sunday
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted...
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Google Says It Reviewed 1.2 Million Web Pages For 'right to Be Forgotten'
Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday said it has evaluated more than 1.2 million Web pages for compliance with Europe's "Right to Be Forgotten" ruling, and removed...
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How Well Is Hillary Clinton Tweeting? Syracuse Takes a Closer Look
Syracuse University researchers are planning to compile and analyze every tweet and Facebook post for every U.S. presidential candidate through the end of the 2016...
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Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Hacks
When you think about the Internet of Things, you probably think of smart refrigerators and smart electric meters, not smart pacemakers, insulin pumps, and x-ray...
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The Doomsday Invention
Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment...
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The Computer That Knows What You're Thinking
We have all done it; put a rictus grin on our faces while inside we are burning with anger.
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