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Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet
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Artificial-Intelligence Experts to Explore Turing Test Triathlon
Intelligentsia of AI will gather to come up with a battery of alternatives to the traditional Turing test.
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Toshiba Android Will Take You For a Trip Down the ncanny Valley
Researchers have developed Aiko Chihiro, a lifelike communication android.
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
University of California, Berkeley professor Michael I. Jordan says rhetoric about machine learning and other computer science fields goes too far.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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Robot Octopus Takes to the Sea
Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas researchers have nearly doubled the swimming speed of their robotic octopus.
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Spherical Display Lets You See 3-D Animations from Any Angle
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo and the University of British Columbia have developed Spheree, a spherical display that enables users to see and interact...
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Skype's Real-Time Translator Learns How to Speak From Social Media
Microsoft says its upcoming Skype Translator app will translate multilingual conversations in real time.
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Can Winograd Schemas Replace Turing Test For Defining Human-Level Ai?
A new proposed method of testing artificial intelligence are so-called Winograd schemas, which present an AI system with an ambiguously worded sentence and asks...
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Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...
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Beyond Tianhe-2
The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...
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Memory Cells Built on Paper
A team at the National Taiwan University in Taipei has printed small resistive random access memory cells on paper.
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ncanny Valley
Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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Software Teaches Hybrids When (and When Not) to Go Electric
Chalmers University of Technology Ph.D. Viktor Larsson's doctoral dissertation describes software that would help hybrid vehicles optimize battery usage.
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Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones
A European public-private consortium aims to make exaflop supercomputers based on the central-processing units used in smartphones and tablet computers.
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Computer-Aided Design Boosts Biochip Efficiency
Researchers are developing computer-aided design software to improve the physical layout of the discrete-droplet lab-on-a-chip.
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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...
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'wearable Eyes' Make You Appear Friendly, Social Even When You're Not
AgencyGlass is a wearable device that produces "virtual eyes" to give the wearer a semblance of friendliness and approachability.
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