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Meet REMS, the Robot That Discovered $17 Billion in Sunken Treasure
Two years ago, an autonomous underwater vehicle from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute located an underwater wreck containing $17 billion in sunken treasure.
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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Sony, Carnegie Mellon Form Partnership to Research Cooking Robots
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to improve food preparation, cooking, and delivery.
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niversity of Sydney Develops Quantum Trick to Block Background Sensor 'chatter'
Researchers have developed a method to block background "chatter," which they say solves a common problem associated with quantum sensing devices.
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There's a Huge Opportunity in Robotics For Early-Career Computer Scientists and Serious Software Engineers
University of Washington professor Maya Cakmak discusses the role of programming by demonstration in her work on human-machine interaction.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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Top500: .s. Knocked Out of 'top Three Most Powerful' List
The U.S. is no longer among the top three in the Top500's latest ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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China Can Help Drive Global Progress in Quantum Computing
2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Andrew Chi-Chih Yao says China could potentially take a global lead in quantum computing innovation.
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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Google Translate: 'this Landmark pdate Is Our Biggest Single Leap in 10 Years'
Google says it is has vastly improved the accuracy of Google Translate through its new Neural Machine Translation system, which utilizes neural networks to train...
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Rise of the Robo-Journalists? Google Teaches an AI the Art of Writing a Good Headline
The Google Brain Team says it has made strides in teaching computers to summarize text, and has developed an algorithm that can write "very good" headlines.
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...
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How Google Deepmind's Ant Soccer Skills Can Help Improve Your Search Results
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence is learning to navigate thee-dimensional environments and games, including a soccer game played as a virtual ant.
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Before Heading to Mars, Nasa's Valkyrie Humanoid Lands at MIT
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has delivered a humanoid robot to the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Ai, Md: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way Illness Is Diagnosed and Treated
Frost & Sullivan's Venkat Rajan observes the concept of artificial intelligence in healthcare has entered reached "early-stage commercialization, adoption, and...
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A 'big Science' Approach For Australian Cybersecurity Research?
The director of the Defense Science and Technology Group's Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division recommends a big-science approach to cybersecurity in Australia...
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Why We Won't Trust Robot Cars Until They Drive Just Like US
Eight separate research projects into autonomous vehicles will receive financial support from the U.K. government.
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South Korean Researchers Develop ser-Friendly, 3D Printing Tech
South Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute researchers say they have developed a handheld three-dimensional scanner.
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France and Spain Team Up to Jumpstart Europe's Exascale Computing Ambitions
France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center have announced a high-performance computing partnership to...
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