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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Are Coming--but What Does That Mean?
Artificial intelligence could play a key role in the next major cyberattack.
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Most TV Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.
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Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to Unlock the Mysteries of Memory
Researchers are using virtual reality to study how a person's brain encodes and retrieves memories while they explore a new virtual environment.
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Flip-Flop Qubits: Radical New Quantum Design Invented
Researchers have created a new quantum computing architecture based on "flip-flop quantum bits (qubits)."
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
Researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence lab have developed an expressive animated bot controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm trained on hundreds...
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Unlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.
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Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have successfully manipulated the electronic structure of graphene.
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Can AI Solve Poverty?
Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.
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EU Drafting Rules to Protect Technology From Foreign Takeovers
Law might follow German rules that let Berlin veto takeover.
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What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells Us About the Future of Automation and Work
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will...
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Why a 24-Year-Old Chipmaker Is One of Tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer
Yale University's Calhoun College today will be dedicated as Hopper College, after Grace Murray Hopper.
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How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
The views of Oren Etzioni, chief executive of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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Putin: Leader in Artificial Intelligence Will Rule World
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
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ORNL Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science's Big Data Problem
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a $2-million grant to study the potential of machine learning to revolutionize scientific data analysis...
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Professor, Experts Aim to Improve Emergency Response
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a system to improve the transmission of critical information for emergency responders.
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