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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing… From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Complex Biological Computer Commands Living Cells
Researchers have developed a biological computer that functions inside living bacterial cells and tells them what to do, according to a report published yesterday...
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Big Names in Statistics Want to Shake Up Much-Maligned P Value
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered...
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New Grid Study Sees U.S. Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
The U.S. needs to do more to protect its electrical grid against high-impact cyberattacks, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine...
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Two Groups Both Win $7.5M to Study AI, Autonomous Systems
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $15 million to two Cornell University research teams to pursue autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
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The Data that Transformed AI Research, and Possibly the World
It's not about the algorithm.
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Scientists Build DNA from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
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Chaos Theory Strengthens Digital Locks
Researchers have definitively demonstrated the strength of a 128-bit digital lock for cybersecurity applications.
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UCLA Research Offers Clearest Evidence of Long-Sought Majorana Particle
A research team has uncovered evidence for the existence of the Majorana particle.
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AI-Generated Map Predicts Who Will Die Next in 'Game of Thrones'
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict which characters on "Game of Thrones" will die next.
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For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Researchers often call 2017 the year of the conversational computer in China.
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The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands.
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Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But biomedical engineers are using the eyes to gain insight into the body.
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New Camera Designed by Stanford Researchers Could Improve Robot Vision and Virtual Reality
A new four-dimensional camera captures almost 140 degrees of information, with implications for robot visual perception and virtual reality.
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Neural Nets Model Audience Reactions to Movies
Disney researchers applied deep-learning neural networks to develop a new way of evaluating movie audiences' reactions using facial expressions.
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Reshaping Computer-Aided Design
Researchers have developed InstantCAD to facilitate interactive real-time editing, enhancement, and optimization of computer-aided design models via a simpler...
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...
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Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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Concerned About Connected Car Privacy? Bluetooth Sensors Used to Track Traffic
One big promise of the connected car revolution has been the potential to help clear up traffic problems.
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