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Composer Receives NSF Grant to Explore Data Sonification
SUNY Geneseo faculty member Glenn McClure's "Music in the Numbers" grant from the NSF will support the exploration of sonification…
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Microsoft Is Creating an Oracle for Catching Biased AI Algorithms
Microsoft is building a tool to automatically identify bias in a range of different AI algorithms.
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Subcutaneous Fitbits? These Cows Are Modeling the Tracking Technology of the Future
Somewhere on a dairy farm in Wellsville, Utah, are three cyborg cows, indistinguishable from the rest of the herd.
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Sitting with the Cyber-Sleuths Who Track Cryptocurrency Criminals
Spiky yellow and blue shapes begin to fill a screen that spans an entire wall in a lab at Imperial College London.
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How the AI Cloud Could Produce the Richest Companies Ever
For years, Swami Sivasubramanian's wife has wanted to get a look at the bears that come out of the woods on summer nights to plunder the trash cans at their suburban...
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AR Still Doesn't Have a Killer App, but Google's ARCore Is Here to Help
You may not have a real Porsche in your driveway, but augmented reality will now let you plonk a virtual one there using a smartphone—and take it for a simulated...
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Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs
I took an Uber to an artificial-intelligence conference at MIT one recent morning, and the driver asked me how long it would take for autonomous vehicles to take...
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Biologists Would Love to Program Cells As If They Were Computer Chips
Sitting in his startup lab space on the outskirts of MIT's campus, Alec Nielsen opens his laptop and types in instructions for a genetically modified yeast cell...
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How Nuclear Weapons Research Revealed New Climate Threats
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever
This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about...
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Can China Contain Bitcoin?
It was only a matter of time before Bobby Lee, CEO of China's longest-running Bitcoin exchange, found himself in the crosshairs of Chinese regulators.
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Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they'd...
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The Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the U.s. as a Leader in Science
The graduate education system in the United States is rightly considered the best in the world. But Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed a bill...
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AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games
Michael Cook, a 30-year-old senior research fellow at the University of Falmouth, has built an AI capable of imagining new video games from scratch.
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Finally, a Useful Application For Vr: Training Employees
If you've ever been inside a Walmart during the annual frenzy known as Black Friday, you know there's no way to truly prepare yourself for the crushing crowds and...
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More Evidence That Humans and Machines Are Better When They Team Up
Instead of just fretting about how robots and AI will eliminate jobs, we should explore new ways for humans and machines to collaborate, says Daniela Rus, director...
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Andrew Ng Wants a New 'new Deal' to Combat Job Automation
Andrew Ng, formerly the head of AI for Chinese search giant Baidu and, before that, creator of Google's deep-learning Brain project, knows as well as anyone that...
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Is Technology About to Decimate White-Collar Work?
Kai-Fu Lee, one of China's best-known technologists and investors, thinks artificial intelligence is about to supplant many millions of the country's office workers...
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Eugenics 2.0: We're at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos By Health, Height, and More
Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It's a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the...
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Why Hedge Funds Are Already Experimenting with Quantum Computers
Hedge funds are flirting with the idea of using quantum computers in an attempt to give their analysis a speed boost.
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