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How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers to Be Funny
The New Yorker magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms to mine a massive volume of cartoon caption submissions to identify the funniest captions.
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How the Hell Could the FBI Hack Into That iPhone?
You know that part about the FBI needing Apple's help to unlock a terrorist's iPhone 5C?
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Apple Says Constitution 'forbids' What Fbi Is Asking
Apple shouldn't have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California, terrorists because the Constitution forbids it, the...
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Natural Selection: Mama Robot Builds Self-Evolving Baby-Bots
The theory of natural selection popularised by Charles Darwin has now been demonstrated in robots.
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For Virtual-Reality Movies, Old Methods Don't Fit New Medium
I'm standing on the bow of what looks to be a sunken pirate ship.
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Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled
It may not be able to do grocery shopping or hang out laundry to dry, but a project involving current telepresence technology could help people with limited mobility...
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The Surreal Dreams of Google's Image Recognition Software
Image recognition is a complicated business. For Google, that means an artificial neural network—software capable of learning.
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Americans Resigned to Giving p Their Privacy, Says Study
I am not fond of depressing you. So I'm going to leave it to a new study performed by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Adios, Silicon: Why Exotic Designs Are the Future For the Chips in Your Gadgets
Most of us assume that smartphones and laptops will keep getting faster and better.
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Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets
Mark Bohr peers through the yellow-tinted windows outside D1D, one of Intel's secretive computer chip factories housed at its 300-acre campus here, about a 30-minute...
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This Working Computer Is Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
The University of Michigan's Micro Mote is an autonomous computer programmed and charged via light, which could be used for a variety of medical and industrial...
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Hbo's John Oliver Hits Snowden Hard on Nsa Leaks
Edward Snowden and an unlikely interviewer squared-off on HBO over the leaks that exposed the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance programs.
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Festo nleashes New Robotic Swarm of Ants and Butterflies
The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots...
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