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Computing
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- An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube
- Boosting AI’s IQ
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- Microsoft’s neo-Nazi sexbot was a great lesson for makers of AI assistants
- Baidu shows off its instant pocket translator
- AI savants, recognizing bias, and building machines that think like people
- The US military wants AI to dream up weird new helicopters
Business
- Computational linguistics reveals pervasive gender bias in modern English novels
- AI could wreak economic havoc—we need more of it
- Bridging the communications gap between human and machine
- If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
- From the factory floor to the OR, robots can make great teammates
- Orbiting Tesla Roadster has 6 percent chance of hitting Earth in the next million years
- This heated jacket uses AI, Alexa, and other buzzwords to keep you perfectly snug
- Kindred AI is using human pilots to do what robots can’t
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Robotics
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- Eye-Tracking Glasses Are All You Need to Control This Drone
- Prosthetic Skin to Sense Wind, Rain and Ants
- Former Head of Google China Foresees an AI Crisis–and Proposes a Solution
- Moxi Prototype from Diligent Robotics Starts Helping Out in Hospitals
- JAXA Wants Telepresence Robots for In-Space Construction and Exploration
- Video Friday: Insect-Inspired Flying Robot, and More
- Consolidate Robot and CNC Controllers in a Single Real-time Windows IPC
- Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7-nm Smartphone Chips
- Yale’s Robot Hand Copies How Your Fingers Work to Improve Object Manipulation
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- The tricks propagandists use to beat science
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BioMedicine
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- The cartographer of cells
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- Gene therapy could free some people from a lifetime of blood transfusions
- A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
- Farmland gene editors want cows without horns, pigs without tails, and business without regulations
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- 2017 was the year consumer DNA testing blew up
- A new DNA test will look for 190 diseases in your newborn’s genetic code
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Energy
- Curbing emissions isn’t enough—we need emergency solutions for climate change
- The race to invent the artificial leaf
- The carbon-capture era may finally be starting
- How nuclear weapons research revealed new climate threats
- Tax Overhaul Hammers Clean Energy and Electric Cars
- Trump’s Energy R&D Policies Ignore the Long-Term Impact of Innovation
- Evaporation Engines Could Produce More Power Than Coal, with a Huge Caveat
- Potential Carbon Capture Game Changer Nears Completion
- For Wind Power, Bigger Is Better
- Tesla’s Model 3 Is a Long Way from Elon Musk’s Grand Goal
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