Google's DeepMind AI team has once again beaten the world's best Go player at his own game. Yesterday, the AlphaGo program beat South Korea's 9-dan Go player Lee Sedol in a live-streamed Go match. In the early hours of this morning, the ...
A research team from Nankai University in China has come up with a mind control car, which uses brain power to operate. The car is operated through brain signal-reading equipment that the driver has to wear to control the movement of the ...
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A new type of staircase has made its appearance on the home improvement scene lately -- precast concrete steps. These factory-molded stairs have a lot to offer in terms of ease of installation, convenience, and affordability. But how do ...
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Elderly people who participate in "brain training" classes to keep their minds sharp continue to see positive benefits 10 years after the training, according to a new study. Even if they took only an initial set of classes aimed at ...
Roughly 40 percent of all medications act on cells' G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). One of these receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site (B2AR), naturally transforms between two base configurations; knowing the precise location of ...
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Leslie Wu, a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford, took an appropriately high-tech approach to presenting her poem "Say 23" at the first Stanford Code Poetry Slam. Wu wore Google Glass as she typed 16 lines of computer code ...
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A career within the land and building surveying sector can be quite lucrative. As a surveyor your role will be to oversee the development and design of land and new buildings. You will also be called in to maintain and restore existing ...
Moving the steep, surrounding mountains that deny sunlight into the valley for nearly half the year wasn’t possible. As such, Martin Andersen assumed the mantle on realizing an existing idea that would instead bring the sunlight to ...
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Scientists from the University of Strathclyde have invented a unique computer technology that helps in the discovery of smarter drugs to treat major disease, including heart ailments. Dubbed as Shapeshifting Inspired Discovery (SID), the ...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed his plans for the Hyperloop, a futuristic mode of transport that would be high-speed, low-impact, self-sustaining and immune to weather and seismic irregularities. The Hyperloop is a proposed transport ...
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Robert Sloan, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has found an AI system to be as smart as a four-year-old. Scientists often talk about creating artificial intelligence, but how "intelligent" are these systems really? ...
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Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has recalled over 4,000 electric vehicles (EV) in Japan, due to the defective batteries. The recall affected 4,313 units of the Outlander plug-in hybrids in Japan as well as 17 units of i-MiEVs and 98 ...
As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10. In Utah this week, ...
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Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) is planning to recall 3,839 units of hybrid vehicles in Japan over the defect in the vehicles motor controls computer program and oil leaks. The recall affects Outlander plug-in hybrid vehicles ...
Game-like computer programmes dumb down the usefulness of interactive IT-based education, according to veteran television presenter Johnny Ball. Speaking to Computing at last week's BETT show in London, Ball said the use of gaming ...
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