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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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The Open Secret of Google Search
One of the most-used tools on the Internet is not what it used to be.
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The Images That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral
Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New...
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The Pentagon's Push to Program Soldiers' Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.
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A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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The Coming Software Apocalypse
There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service.
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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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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Darpa's Ex-Leader's Speculative Dream of Mind-Melding Empathy
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...
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Beyond the Five Senses
The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots' conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?
Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck.
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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Chatbots Have Entered the ncanny Valley
The tendency for people to be repelled by increasingly humanoid and human-like robots may extend to chatbots and digital assistants as well.
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Don't Use the Force, Luke, Use the Targeting Computer
Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...
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The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...
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Who Owns Your Face?
It takes a feast of facial imagery to teach a machine how to recognize an individual person.
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...
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