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AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust between Humans and Computers
Researchers have received a $7.55-million grant to find new ways to have artificial intelligence explain its decision-making process to human users.
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Inside Earth, Visualized: HD Video Models Planet's Core
Were it not for our Earth's magnetic field, the planet would be bombarded by charged particles from the sun.
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Face Scans for US Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step...
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A Computer That Reads Body Language
Researchers have developed a computer capable of understanding body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time.
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Web Inventor Urges Support for Net Neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, urged people to show support for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules that are likely to be...
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Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's...
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Lights, Camera, CRISPR: Biologists Use Gene Editing to Store Movies in DNA
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
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11,000 Girls Compete in International Mobile App Challenge
Girls ages 10-18 from around the world are competing in the Technovation Challenge, a global effort to learn and apply technology to try to solve problems in their...
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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Rare Enigma Machine Fetches 45,000 Euros at Auction
A rare Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II was sold at auction Tuesday for 45,000 euros ($51,500).
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UW's Lip-Syncing Obama Demonstrates New Technique to Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video
University of Washington researchers have developed a system that can take audio clips from one speech and sync them with video clips from another.
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Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix 'Unruly' Gridlock
India's Gridlock Hackathon aims to find solutions to the congested roads that cost the economy billions of dollars.
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Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written by Humans
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.
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President of Harvey Mudd College Criticizes Silicon Valley's 'Bro Culture'
The president of Harvey Mudd University, Maria Klawe, has criticized the culture in some of Silicon Valley's tech companies.
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First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient...
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Hackers Find 'Ideal Testing Ground' for Attacks: Developing Countries
The attack had the hallmarks of something researchers had dreaded for years: malicious software using artificial intelligence that could lead to a new digital arms...
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot
NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit.
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.
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