Lawmakers Seek to Expand Repair Options
End-users want to be able to repair their expensive electronics; manufacturers disagree.
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Thinking Deeply to Make Better Speech
More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
Graph Matching in Theory and Practice
A theoretical breakthrough in graph isomorphism excites complexity experts, but will it lead to any practical improvements?
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
When Computers Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Classification algorithms can lead to biased decisions, so researchers are trying to identify such biases and root them out.
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
Artificial Precognition ses Data to See the Future
Using large data sets and machine learning to recognize unseen patterns.
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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