Computing
Teaching Computers to Enjoy the View
Researchers in the U.K. trained computers to rate photos of parks and cities for what humans consider to be their scenic beauty. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Can You Hear Me Now? How to Protect Yourself From Voice Hackers
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Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware
Climate
Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea Level Rise for Decades
Revised tallies confirm that the rate of sea level rise is accelerating as Earth warms and ice sheets thaw
Climate
Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea Level Rise for Decades
Space
Space Stations: Archaeological Sites in Low-Earth Orbit
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What an Artificial Intelligence Researcher Fears about AI
“Being a scientist doesn’t absolve me of my humanity”
How Fake News Goes Viral--Here's the Math
Models similar to those used to track disease show what happens when too much information hits social media networks
Quantum Computers Compete for "Supremacy"
Two technologies may be on the verge of surpassing even the most powerful digital computers in a year or so, but key challenges remain unsolved
Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware
It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine
The Real Costs of Cheap Surveillance
U.S. firms have both the incentive and the opportunity to use information about us in undesirable ways
Can You Hear Me Now? How to Protect Yourself From Voice Hackers
Security has to start with sound itself
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Videos
Giant Model Mimics Damaged Dam Spillway
When the Oroville Dam spillway cracked and failed after a wet California winter, a team of scientists created a one fiftieth–scale model of the damaged concrete and eroded hillside to help guide the reconstruction.
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