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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Magic Leap
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Years ago I had coffee with a friend who ran a startup.
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The Facebook Page That Posts the Same Picture Every Day
The Facebook page "the same photo of Toto Cutugno every day" has caught the attention of fans of the Italian singer, as well as researchers.
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A Speedy Wireless Protocol Is Coming to Many Gadgets
Smartphones, tablets and PCs should appear this year that can send and receive data wirelessly more than 10 times faster than a Wi-Fi connection.
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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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New Form of Memory Could Advance Brain-Inspired Computers
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.
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2014 in Computing: Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...
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Robobrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.
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Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing
Some high-tech prosthetic limbs can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. However, there's no way for the wearer to tell if an...
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'nanobuds' Could Turn Almost Any Surface Into a Touch Sensor
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into...
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Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century?
Last month in Silicon Valley, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, a glitzy...
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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3-D-Printing Bio-Electronic Parts
A 3-D printer can already make a prototype or spare part out of metal or polymer.
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How Google 'translates' Pictures Into Words sing Vector Space Mathematics
Translating one language into another has always been a difficult task.
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Simple Circuit Could Double Cell-Phone Data Speeds
A simple circuit could enable smartphones and other wireless devices to send and receive data twice as fast as is currently possible.
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Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight
To track how language evolves, Stony Brook University researcher Vivek Kulkarni and colleagues map the linguistic vector space of words.
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Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood
Stanford University researchers have mined geotagged tweets for indications of mood and searched for correlations with the weather.
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Next-Generation Robot Needs Your Help
Carnegie Mellon University professor Manuela Veloso believes robots can be made fully autonomous by designing them to ask for help when necessary.
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Fmri Data Reveals the Number of Parallel Processes Running in the Brain
The human brain is often described as a massively parallel computing machine. That raises an interesting question: just how parallel is it?
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