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When Cars Fly
The idea of personal air vehicles has been around for decades. Now the concept is taking off.
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California Moves to Expand K-12 Computer Science Instruction
California's 2017-2018 state budget includes funding for initiatives to broaden K-12 student access to computer science coursework and instruction.
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Two Giants of AI Team Up to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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Peering Inside an AI's Brain Will Help Us Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Thousands of Rome's Historical Images Digitized With Help of Stanford Researchers
Researchers at Stanford University have contributed to the creation of a digital visual archive charting Rome's evolution over the centuries.
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EU Developing Robot Badgers for Underground Excavation
The European Union is underwriting the roBot for Autonomous unDerGround trenchless opERations, mapping, and navigation (BADGER) project.
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Tracking Humans in 3D With Off-the-Shelf Webcams
VNect is a new system for capturing human movements digitally in three dimensions in real time using a single video camera.
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Making Waves
Researchers have introduced a novel representation of waves that improves computational efficiency by at least an order of magnitude.
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Practical Parallelism
Researchers have developed a system called Fractal that enables up to 88-fold acceleration in a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.
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LHC Physicists Unveil a Charming New Particle
Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new kind of heavy particle, they announced...
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How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
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Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI's Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.
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DU Physicists Put New Spin on Computer Technology
Researchers at the University of Denver have demonstrated spin transport through a synthetic material that is amorphous, or non-ordered, both magnetically and structurally...
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UC Santa Cruz Launches New Data Science Research Center
The University of California, Santa Cruz has launched a new data science research center that provides a platform for collaboration between industry and academia...
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AI Will Prepare Robots for the Unknown
Researchers suggest artificial intelligence could greatly benefit robotic exploratory spacecraft by giving them autonomy.
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Study Finds Hackers Could Use Brainwaves to Steal Passwords
A recent study suggests brainwave-sensing electroencephalograph headsets need better security.
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How Video Games Helped Give Us the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Conference Organizers Say U.S. Travel Ban Not A Disaster – Yet
Travel restrictions appear to have had minimal impact on conference attendance so far.
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