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Google's DeepMind lab gave deep learning software external memory to perform tasks such as navigating the London Underground map

Google's Deep Mind Gives AI a Memory Boost That Lets It Navigate London's Underground

12 Oct

Modal VR's virtual reality system for commercial applications includes a wearable headset, a full-body motion tracking suit, and a computer peripheral it calls the VR Fabricator

Nolan Bushnell Says His New Virtual Reality Startup Has the Keys to the Holodeck—and it’s Portable

12 Oct

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Doctors 1, Diagnosis Apps 0

10 Oct

Those nice, tidy algorithms and predictive models might just be Weapons of Math Destruction.

Is Your Big Data Project a “Weapon of Math Destruction”?

5 Oct

Anika Cheerla, a Google Science Fair finalist from Silicon Valley, reviews her research in breast cancer risk assessment using machine learning

Machine Learning Tools Help Google Science Fair Finalists Find Lost Objects, Predict Breast Cancer Risk

5 Oct

Videos

In a live demo, a detector deploys direction-of-arrival sensing to alert users on board a superyacht to GPS spoofing

How to Detect a GPS Spoof on a Superyacht

2 Aug

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Tech Meets Art: Capturing Life with the Eyes of a Machine

16 Jul

Humanoid robot and semantic network used in robot morality research

How to Build a Moral Robot

31 May

The Bitcoin blockchain explained

The Bitcoin Blockchain Explained

8 Jul 2015

Transform Your Photos with a Magic Word

23 Oct 2014

Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation

1 Apr 2013

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Features

The 2017 Acura NSX.

The 2017 Acura NSX: A Hybrid Supercar

26 Sep

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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors

30 Aug

Cecilia Laschi with octopus

Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics With Eight Wiggly Arms

15 Aug

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Twisted Light Could Dramatically Boost Data Rates

4 Aug

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The 2016 Top Programming Languages

26 Jul

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Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data

26 Jul

More Computing

Fujitsu Memory Tech Speeds Up Deep-Learning AI

4 Oct

In-cabin camera monitors driver in self-driving car

Autonomous Vehicles Need In-Cabin Cameras to Monitor Drivers

4 Oct

A Google self driving SUV on the streets of Mountain View, California

No Test Driver? No Problem: California May Make Testing Self-Driving Cars Easier

3 Oct

The Google Translate icon on the screen of a smartphone

Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning Upgrade

3 Oct

IEEE Spectrum senior editor Tekla Perry takes a treadmill jog while asking Radar Pace smart glasses questions

Working Out With Intel and Oakley’s Chatty Radar Pace Augmented-Reality Smart Glasses

30 Sep

An illustration of a pore in a cell membrane with calcium ions flowing through

New Memristor Circuit Mimics Synapses in the Brain

29 Sep

Brain inspired computing

IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip Tested for Deep Learning

27 Sep

Photo by James Newman

The Megaprocessor Laughs at Your Puny Integrated Circuits

23 Sep

Educators get ready to roll out Stanford's Hacking for Defense class to 13 universities around the United States; students will tackle cyberterrorism and other real-world challenges.

Clinton Calls for Tech Firms to Fight Terrorism, but Students Could Be the Key

23 Sep

The interior of a Tesla car, with a large display screen on the dashboard

Tesla's Massive New Autopilot Update Is Released, Promising Safer Driving

22 Sep

A underwater acoustic hologram projects a pair of rings onto the water's surface

3D-Printed Plastic Blocks Generate Complex Acoustic Holograms

21 Sep

A stock photo shows a monkey sitting in front of a computer keyboard.

Monkey Types 12 Words Per Minute With Brain-Computer Interface

12 Sep

A close up of the Haswell-EX Xeon E7-8890 V3 multicore processor chip shows 18 cores.

New System Could Break Bottleneck in Microprocessors

12 Sep

A picture of the 6 mm x 2 mm photonic integrated circuit chip, containing two quantum random number generators

A Chip-Scale Source for Quantum Random Number Generators

8 Sep

Apple's new iPhone 7 Plus boasts two cameras to do zoom and background blur

The Two-Camera iPhone 7 Plus Is Just the Beginning of the Camera Count Competition

7 Sep

A crowd waits at JFK International Airport due to reports of shooting inside a terminal

Modern Airports Offer No Easy Way Out for Panicking Crowds

6 Sep

Screen shots of Spotify's Discover Weekly recommender system on a computer, a phone, and a tablet

The Little Hack That Could: The Story of Spotify’s “Discover Weekly” Recommendation Engine

6 Sep

Facebook's Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh addresses the engineers attending the third annual @Scale conference

Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers in Real-World Stress Test

2 Sep

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