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Patching the Electric Grid
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...
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Nvidia Lets You Peer Inside the Black Box of Its Self-Driving AI
NVIDIA researchers have developed a neural network for autonomous driving that emphasizes what areas it is focusing on in a video image.
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
The Planar Elliptical Runner is a two-legged robot that will help explore how mechanical design can be used to enable sophisticated legged locomotion.
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This Robot Knows When It's Confused and Asks For Help
Brown University researchers have developed a robot that measures its own confusion and then asks for help if it thinks it is required.
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A Massive New Library of 3D Images Could Help Your Robot Butler Get Around Your House
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...
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Google's New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
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The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Some experts warn deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies cannot be adopted without reservations if their creators cannot understand how they reason....
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The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Watches Dance Dance Revolution, Then Creates Dances of Its Own
Dance Dance Convolution is a new system that takes as an input the raw audio files of pop songs, and produces dance routines as an output.
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This Paralyzed Man Is sing a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm For the First Time in Years
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...
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Machine Learning Opens p New Ways to Help Disabled People
Companies are developing and launching machine-learning technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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This Technology Could Finally Make Brain Implants Practical
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private
A personalized news recommendation application collects data about the user to suggest relevant stories without sending any personal information to a remote server...
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AI Software Learns to Make AI Software
Several research organizations are working to create artificial intelligences that can in turn develop machine-learning software.
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The Internet Is Sick
The Mozilla Foundation's new Internet Health Report identifies obstacles that undermine entrepreneurship and democracy online.
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Data Mining Solves the Mystery of Your Slow Wi-Fi Connection
Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have discovered why slow or failed Wi-Fi connectivity happens and how to avoid it, by measuring the time it took for...
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Air Force Tests Ibm's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
The U.S. Air Force Research Lab is exploring whether brain-inspired computer chips could give satellites, aircraft, and drones the ability to automatically identify...
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5 Big Predictions For Artificial Intelligence in 2017
Among the expected advancements in artificial intelligence for 2017 is progress in applying deep reinforcement learning to real-world challenges such as automated...
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