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Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon
Backscattering could eventually harness sufficient energy to power small devices.
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Computer Approaches Human Skill for First Time in Brain Challenge
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can map brain neural networks with close to human-level accuracy.
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Mysteries of Turbulence Unravelled
"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he'll have an answer for the first."
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Print No Evil: Three-Layer Technique Helps Secure Additive Manufacturing
Researchers have developed a three-layer system for validating that components produced via additive manufacturing have not been compromised.
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Are Your Tweets Feeling Well?
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted a study to understand patterns of how people behave differently on social media when they are ill...
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DARPA Assured Autonomy Seeks to Guarantee Safety of Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems
Researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have launched a new research program that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn...
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Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis for American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
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Spotting a Social Bot Might Be Harder Than You Think
Although savvy Internet users might think they can easily identify a social media bot, there are tricks a "bot army master" can use to make the accounts seem more...
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AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
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Smart Computers
Researchers at the University of Freiburg's excellence cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools in Germany are showing how ideas from computer science could revolutionize...
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Inside the Fighter Jet of the Future Where AI Is the Pilot
I'm in the cockpit of a Typhoon fighter jet. It's an overwhelming sea of buttons, twiddly knobs and square screens displaying various diagrams and measurements....
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The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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E-ZPass Could Kickstart Smart Cities
Everyone likes the idea of a smart city. Traffic lights would automatically adjust to optimize traffic flow, you could find parking spaces without circling for...
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NASA's Voyager Missions Could Guide Aliens to Earth
The 40th anniversary of the launch of two of NASA's most remarkable spacecraft is fast approaching.
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WSU Researchers Receive $2.3M to Improve U.S. Power Grid Design
Researchers at Washington State University recently received a $2.3-million U.S. Department of Energy grant to more efficiently distribute power and better manage...
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a chip that uses light, not electrons, to crunch data.
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China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
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