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New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves
One of the great unanswered question in biology is why organisms have evolved to cooperate.
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How a Wireless Sensor System in the Busiest City Intersections Can Save Lives
Every city has at least one dangerous intersection where cars, trucks, and buses jostle for space with pedestrians and bicyclists, often resulting in injury, and...
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Curiosity May Be Vital For Truly Smart AI
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...
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Patching the Electric Grid
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...
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Should the Government Keep Stockpiling Software Bugs?
As the dust settles from the global ransomware attack that has crippled systems in more than 150 countries since Friday, the U.S. government's shadowy process for...
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Watches Dance Dance Revolution, Then Creates Dances of Its Own
Dance Dance Convolution is a new system that takes as an input the raw audio files of pop songs, and produces dance routines as an output.
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This Paralyzed Man Is sing a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm For the First Time in Years
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...
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Google's AI Explosion in One Chart
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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Chemists Are First in Line For Quantum Computing's Benefits
This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...
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Quantum Computers Finally Go Head-to-Head
In the red corner, weighing in with just five qubits, a quantum computer from the University of Maryland in College Park. In the blue corner, also with five qubits...
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This Technology Could Finally Make Brain Implants Practical
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private
A personalized news recommendation application collects data about the user to suggest relevant stories without sending any personal information to a remote server...
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Military Program Produces Gadget That Detects Machinery from Behind a Concrete Wall
The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...
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New Camera Can See Around Corners
In the last few years, single-pixel cameras have begun to revolutionize the field of imaging.
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Everything You Need to Know About Gene Therapy's Most Promising Year
For a few lucky patients, 2016 was the year when gene therapy turned from promises to cures.
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Security Experts Warn Congress That the Internet of Things Could Kill People
A growing mass of poorly secured devices on the Internet of things represents a serious risk to life and property, and the government must intervene to mitigate...
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China Turns Big Data Into Big Brother
It was a drab, chill day in November, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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