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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug
A study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany detailed researchers' exploration of robots capable of hugging humans for...
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The 2017 Top Programming Languages
It's summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it's time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages.
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Feel What This Robot Feels Through Tactile Expressions
Cornell University's Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab is developing a robot designed to explore textual communication.
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Hiding Information in Plain Text
Computer scientists have now invented a way to hide secret messages in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of letters.
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Spying on a Storm's Infrasonic Signals to Improve Tornado Warnings
Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...
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20 Entangled Qubits Bring the Quantum Computer Closer
In 1981, Richard Feynman suggested that a quantum computer might be able to simulate the evolution of quantum systems much better than classical computers. Except...
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See Straight Through Walls by Augmenting Your Eyeballs With Drones
Researchers are studying how to use augmented reality to change drones into remote cameras that an untrained user can easily control.
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Self-Powered Image Sensor Could Watch You Forever
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you'd have...
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To Speed p AI, Mix Memory and Processing
If John von Neumann were designing a computer today, there's no way he would build a thick wall between processing and memory. At least, that's what computer engineer Naresh...
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Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology
The deep neural networks that power today's artificial intelligence systems work in mysterious ways.
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Modeling ncertainty Helps MIT's Drone Zip Around Obstacles
It's not too hard to make a drone that can fly very fast, and it's not too hard to make a drone that can avoid obstacles.
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This AI Hunts Poachers
Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security is an artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning algorithms to predict where poaching is likely to occur...
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With the Summit Supercomputer, U.s. could Retake Computing's Top spot
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions
By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages...
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Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and The australian outback
Even in early winter, the sun is harsh in Western Australia's Murchison shire.
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Two New Simulators Tease Future of Quantum Computing
A universal quantum computer capable of outperforming today's classical computers in solving many different problems remains the biggest future prize for many engineers...
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4 Strange New Ways to Compute
With Moore's Law slowing, engineers have been taking a cold hard look at what will keep computing going when it's gone.
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To Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage
For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well.
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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