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Technology in the News


A.I. Is Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean's Worth of Data

Aerial Mapping: Providing a Bird's Eye View
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Redefining What Code "Means" today

Watch a Robot Change Its Shape Like A Transformer
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Minecraft "loophole" library of banned journalism
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Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?

​Scientists Found a Way to Transfer Data Through Music

AI Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science

Reprogramming the Piano
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The Teenage Hackers Who've Been Given a Second Chance

UPS Drones Are Now Moving Blood Samples Over North Carolina

An AI-Written Science Book
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What Boston Dynamics' Rolling "Handle" Robot Really Means

Insect-Sized Drones, Coming to a Spy Mission Near You
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BBC: Machine Minds (collection of articles about AI, Robots, etc.)
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More Data, More Problems
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Boeing Plans to Fix the 737 Max Jet With a Software Update

Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order

Supposedly 'Fair' Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Do Parkour
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Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Does Backflips Now
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The Worst Passwords of 2018 Are Just as Dumb as You'd Expect

Inside the Pentagon's Plan to Win Over Silicon Valley's AI Experts

Meet Iceworm: NASA's Ice-Climbing Robot​

Talking horses and perfect faces: The rise of virtual celebrities

Artificial Intelligence Will Save Humanity, but Does Anyone Care?
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Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You
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The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal

How to teach artificial intelligence some common sense
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Students at St. Vrain Innovation Center aim high in aeronautics class

The AI Cold War That Threatens Us All
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NOVA Wonders Can We Build a Brain
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Would you want an AI version of yourself?

I spent 53 minutes in Amazon Go and saw the future of retail

Watch this humanoid robot install drywall​

A robot hand is a breakthrough for more capable AI

Opinion: Killer robots are on the way, and they are a threat to humanity

Ikea designs future autonomous cars...

Can you guess which of these paintings was not made by a human?
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Robot Muscles Inspired By Origami Lift 1000 Times Their Weight



Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio

Wanted urgently: People who know a half-century old computer language so states can process unemployment claims -- CNN

COBOL -- National Museum of American History


A Glimpse into the Future of Cybersecurity

Almost half of  mobile malware are hidden apps

NASA Supercomputers join fight against coronavirus
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Intel is Teaching a Computer Chip to Smell

Wired Guide to 5G
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Heavy social media use linked to poor sleep

The Apple Icons You See Today...

Meeting the Mona Lisa (VR)

The Wired Guide to Open Source Software
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Untold History of AI series

Robots of Tomorrow
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Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon

The Uncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices

Cord Cutting Hits Video Games
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​No AI in Humor: R2D2 Walks into a Bar, Doesn't Get the Joke
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DJs of the Future Don't Spin Records - They Write Code

Your Apples May Soon Be Picked By Laser Shooting Robots

​TypeScript's Quiet Steady Rise Among Programming Languages

3 ways AI is already changing medicine
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PC Building Simulator turns a complex hobby into goofy fun

Play this simple design game to test your UI knowledge

Inside the Mad Lab That’s Getting Robots to Walk and Jump Like Us

Is This Photo Real? AI Gets Better at Faking Images

How China's Elite Hackers Stole the World's Most Valuable Secrets

Oak Park teen saving local law enforcement hundreds of dollars with robotics project

50 years ago, 'the mother of all demos' foretold our tech future

Hello, Bennu! NASA Asteroid-Sampling Probe Reaches Its Target Space Rock
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Your drone can give cops a surprising amount of your data
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The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines
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Passengers to face AI lie detector tests at EU airports

They Hacked Their School District When They Were Twelve

Parker Solar Probe breaks record for traveling closest to the sun
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Christie's sells its first AI portrait for $432,500
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DC's Stingray Mess Won't Get Cleaned Up

​Farm Robots

The AI farm experiment
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Brain-to-brain network allows three people to share their thoughts

Self-Solving Rubik's Cube

'Hacking For Defense' Course to be taught in 20 universities this year

​Electronic 'Skin' Creates Robots From Ordinary Objects
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Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA'S 'Robot Olympics' 



Katherine Johnson's Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon

High school students build robots to help a local hospital

50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos

Exploring Antarctica's Threatened Glaciers with a Robot 

​Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa

Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges

How AI Will Rewire Us

Facial recognition surveillance faces new calls for legal limits

AI's Uneasy Coming of Age / Guarding Against the Tricksters

Lego Looks to Make Coding Click for Middle Schoolers

The Cult of the Dead Cow
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Coders' Primal Urge to Kill Inefficiency

How This Robotics Wizard Is Shaping the Restaurants of Tomorrow

A ferocious shrimp inspires a robot claw that shoots plasma
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A New Google Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords

Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works

This Birdlike Robot Uses Thrusters to Float on Two Legs
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Two arms are better than one

Google Glass Wasn't a Failure. It Raised Crucial Concerns

Eyes and Ears 3D-Printed from Flesh Could Boost Our Senses

Rudy Giuliani's bizarre Twitter conspiracy theory, explained

Companion robot trialled in Victorian classrooms

Amazon wants you to code the AI brain for this little car

They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12...
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What the Ancients can tell us about how to remember
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Can judging be automated?
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China's state-run press agency has created an "AI anchor" to read the news

China's Robot Uprising

Google's Night Sight for Pixel phones will amaze you
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Experts see 5G as defense to 'Stingray' spying

Disney's spray-painting drone could end the need for scaffolding

Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu

Robots are learning to carefully peel lettuce leaves

Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing

Machines will do half our labor in less than 8 years

Flapping Robot Sheds Light On How Fruit Flies Move
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China Turns to Robotic Policing




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