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This Is What Happens When a Robot Assassin Goes to Therapy
Computers are getting good at a lot of things they didn’t used to be able to do at all. They can drive cars, diagnose patients, and understand speech. They’ve even started to be capable of tasks that...
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What It Will Take for Quantum Computers to Turbocharge Machine Learning
Quantum computers could give the machine learning algorithms at the heart of modern artificial intelligence a dramatic speed up, but how far off are we? An international group of researchers has...
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How College Students Should Prepare for Our Automated Future
russiaA Russian 'Cannibal Couple' May Have Eaten up to 30 People, Investigators SaySingaporeThis Teenager Was Jailed For Being Critical of Singapore. The U.S. Just Upheld His Bid for...
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Robot with human reflexes
Researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human's split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete...
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The Barcelona IoT Solutions World Congress Barcelona aims to be the global benchmark event for the deployment of the internet of things systems in industry. Register now 695 €/pass VAT Excluded (10%)...
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This pocket-sized gadget helps build positive habits
Want to read more, remember to take your vitamins, or even take out the trash? With the “Dory” Arduino-based tracking device from YouTuber YellowRobot.XYZ, now you can! Dory–which comes in both a...
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How Close Is Turing's Dream of Conversational Machines?
The quest for conversational artificial intelligence has been a long one. When Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, racked his considerable brains for a test that would truly indicate that a...
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An Arduino Weather Station With An E-Ink Display
For our Northern Hemisphere readers the chill winds of winter are fast approaching, so it seems appropriate to feature a weather station project. Enjoy your summer, Southern readers! [Fandonov] has...
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A biobank of reversible mutant embryonic stem cells
Scientist at IMBA developed a biobank of revertible, mutant embryonic stem cells, published in the current issue of Nature. This cell bank – called Haplobank - contains over 100,000 mutated,...
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New ‘Chemical Surgery’ Technique Repairs Mutations in Human Embryos
For the first time, a research team from China used a new technique to fix a blood disorder in human embryos. The scientists performed “chemical surgery”—a procedure that rewrites errors in genetic...
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A collection of Soviet control rooms. Power stations, control towers etc. Posted mainly for aesthetic reasons. Update: we have erroneously included 1 American, 1 from 2012 & 1 from 1993. Apologies....
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Intel Jumps Into Brain-Like Computing With New Self-Learning Chip
The brain has long inspired the design of computers and their software. Now Intel has become the latest tech company to decide that mimicking the brain’s hardware could be the next stage in the...
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Japanese Animals Are Still Washing Up in America After The 2011 Tsunami
On March 11, 2011, an unprecedentedly powerful earthquake struck the Tōhoku region of Japan. It destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings, wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, created a...
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United for Puerto Rico is an initiative brought forth by the First lady of Puerto Rico, Beatriz Rosselló in collaboration with the private sector, with the purpose of providing aid and support to those...
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Team develops gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology
Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits that can program the functionality, performance, and behavior of living cells. Analogous to integrated circuits...
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U.S. volunteers dosed with genetically modified bacteria
NIAID by Antonio Regalado September 26, 2017 Somewhere in Baltimore, volunteers are gulping capsules filled with GMOs—gene-modified E. coli bacteria, to be precise. Synlogic, the...
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National Eye Institute awards prize for ‘Retina in a dish’ competition
NEI 3-D Retina Organoid Challenge spurs next-generation models to study blinding diseases and test therapies A proposal to create a living model of the human retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the...
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Progress in AI seems like it’s accelerating, but here’s why it could be...
Adam Detour by James Somers September 29, 2017 I’m standing in what is soon to be the center of the world, or is perhaps just a very large room on the seventh floor of a gleaming tower in downtown...
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Artificial intelligence is about the people, not the machines
It takes money to make money and right now a lot of that money is going into the development of artificial intelligence. From hedge funds to venture capital firms, everyone in finance has some idea...
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