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These Two Small Letters Heralded the Beginning of Online Communication
Their message is far more profound in retrospect than it was at the time
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Could Video Gamers Make Our Food Supply Safer?
An effort to combat poisonous molds that contaminate crops is looking to tap the puzzle-solving skills of amateur gamers
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Latest AI Teaches Itself to Play Go With No Human Help
DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero taught itself how to play Go, becoming the greatest player in history in just 40 days
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Improving Magic Tricks
Computer scientists have designed a trick that uses an algorithm to search the internet for the words most associated with images
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Use Your Hand (or Your Coffee Cup, or Your Cat) as a Remote Control
A new gesture recognition technology could allow users to turn almost any item into a remote for controlling televisions, tablets and more
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In a First, Archival-Quality Performances Are Preserved in DNA
Songs by Miles Davis and Deep Purple at the Montreux Jazz Festival will live on in the ultra-compact, long-lasting format
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The Science Behind Our Search for Waldo
‘Where’s Waldo’ was first published on this day in 1987
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A Smart Recycling Bin Could Sort Your Waste for You
It’s sometimes difficult to know where to put different types of plastic, but computer vision could remove any confusion
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The Roots of Computer Code Lie in Telegraph Code
Émile Baudot, born a year after the first long-distance telegraph message was sent, helped advance the technology
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Nine Tasks Robots Can Do That May Surprise You
Machines can cook your dinner, fill your prescriptions, make your shoes and much, much more
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New Letters Show Alan Turing Wasn’t a Fan of the U.S.A.
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist who spent 2 years at Princeton wrote that he ‘detests America’ in newly found documents
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Apps Can Help You Get Pregnant. But Should You Use Them as a Contraceptive?
An increasing number of women are relying on apps to track their menstrual cycles. Now, there’s even an app approved as birth control.
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AI Is Edging Into the Art World in Psychedelic Ways
The team at Google is using neural networks to create tools that they hope will inspire and channel creativity
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The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty’
Turns out that cats really don’t take direction well
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This Robotic Harness Could Help People Relearn to Walk After Injury
Swiss researchers have developed an algorithm-backed “smart” harness to help stroke and spinal cord injury victims practice walking in a more natural way.
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Big Data (and You) Could Help Find 1,500 Undiscovered Minerals
Researchers are using new tools to predict where to find new minerals as well as to locate new sources of valuable resources like copper
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The World Wide Web Was Almost Known as “The Mesh”
The inventor of the World Wide Web had a few different name ideas
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Scientists Store Video Clip in DNA of Living Cells
This first could lead to health-monitoring molecular recorders inside cells
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AI Project Produces New Styles of Art
Researchers let two neural networks critique each other to create the images
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New Badges Will Make Today’s Girl Scouts Tomorrow’s Cybersleuths
Camping and cookie sales are just the tip of the iceberg for modern scouts
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