Machines masquerading as humans have never had it so easy. New artificial intelligence can crack a range of CAPTCHAs — tests commonly used by websites to check if a user is a person or robot — with very little practice.
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Scientists have identified a new form of matter, the existence of which has been theorised for 50 years. The substance is known as “excitonium”. It is made up of excitons – unusual particles made up of an escaped electron and the hole it has left behind in a material.
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Despite what the media tends to depict, artificial intelligence is being put to better use than winning video games andRea
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AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies. Almost 15 years after scientists first sequenced the human genome, making sense of the enormous amount of data that encodes human life remains a formidable challenge. But it is also precisely the sort of problem that machine learning excels at.
Google has now released a tool called DeepVariant that uses the latest AI techniques to build a more accurate picture of a person’s genome from sequencing data. DeepVariant helps turn high-throughput sequencing readouts into a picture of a full genome. It automatically identifies small insertion and deletion mutations and single-base-pair mutations in sequencing data.
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12 Statistics about Women in Tech that Show How Big the Gender Gap Truly Is
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Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year 2018 is Ultra Violet, or Pantone 18-3838 TCX. Unveiled in “_The New York Times_”:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/fashion/pantone-color-of-the-year-2018-ultraviolet.html, the announcement is based on in-depth research, trend forecasting and analysis of current culture.
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Humanlike speech poses a major challenge to designers, and raises important questions about what people really want from their virtual assistants.
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After playing games with his son, a Duke physician invented a medical tool that could put ultrasound imaging in the hands of more doctors
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Messenger apps have shaken up the industry. Learn more about building your own messanger apps and calcualting the approximate app cost in our article.
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“What’s better than a robot inspired by bees? A robot inspired by bees that can swim.Researchers led by a team at Harvard University have developed a tiny, 175-milligram (about two feathers) device with insect-inspired wings that can both flap and rotate, allowing it to either fly above the ground or swim in shallow waters and easily transition between the two.”
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