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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Tech Companies Help Women Get Back to Work
Technology companies are leveraging internships and other programs to help women return to work and update the skills they need to be competitive.
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Cern Is Seeking Secrets of the niverse, or Maybe Opening the Portals of Hell
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for another run at smashing particles together to unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...
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Crowd Control? Baidu Has an Algorithm For That
Baidu's Big Data Lab has devised an algorithm that can predict crowd formation.
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Tiny Cameras to See in the Intestines
The digestive tract can be inhospitable terrain to examine.
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How the .s. Fights Encryption--and Also Helps Develop It
Some U.S. government agencies are financing the development of encryption technologies to protect communications even as others seek to circumvent them.
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Cynthia Breazeal's Robotic Quest
Cynthia Breazeal has committed herself to the development of socially intelligent robots.
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Companies Find Tech Talent in Robust Freelance Market
Companies are turning to private marketplaces of software developers to assemble teams for specific projects, rather than hiring permanent personnel.
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A Bright Approach to Brain Implants
The brain was once considered a "black box," a device so mysterious that you could only guess what it was doing by observing human behavior.
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Japan Road Tests Self-Driving Cars to Keep Aging Motorists Mobile
Japan's automakers aim to meet the challenge of aging drivers with few transportation options by testing self-driving vehicles on roads.
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What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real
A researcher is convinced virtual reality experiences can change users' thinking and behavior.
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How the Science in 'star Wars’ Is Actually Real
For a story that takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" a great deal of the technology in the "Star Wars" series actually has parallels today on...
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Online Degree Hits Learning Curve
The Georgia Institute of Technology's launch of an inexpensive online computer science master's degree program two years ago has had mixed results.
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In Belgium, an Encryption Powerhouse Rises
Belgium's University of Leuven has become a stage where privacy and surveillance advocates are fighting over digital encryption.
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Researchers Put Words In Your Mouth—virtually
In the 1997 action movie Face/Off, an FBI agent must undergo face-transplant surgery and assume the identity of a ruthless terrorist to foil a plot.
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.
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Scientists Tap Dragonfly Vision to Build a Better Bionic Eye
What can humans learn from dragonflies?
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Election Polling: When 'who Will Win?' Beats 'who Do You Like?'
Statisticians and political scientists are more reliant on the question, "Who do you think will actually win?" than "Who do you like?" when it comes to predictive...
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