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Internet Giants Could Slash Energy Costs 40 Percent With Smart Rerouting...
Xbox Live Lives Here Simon Norfolk via The New York TimesMoving computing from the desktop to the 24/7 data centers of the "cloud" may be the way forward (just ask Google), but it will come with a...
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Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize For Improved Recommendations Engine
Netflix Recommends Netflix, make me match Netflix A team of former rivals has officially won the competition to improve Netflix movie recommendations. The collaborative known as BellKor's Pragmatic...
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Video: Using New Learning Algorithm, Archer 'Bot Learns How To Aim and Shoot...
Archer Robot YouTube Using a learning algorithm, Italian researchers taught a child-like humanoid robot archery, even outfitting it with a spectacular headdress to celebrate its new skill. Petar...
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Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human...
Breast Cancer Imaging This image shows 18 breast cancer images adjacent to matching images that have been automatically labeled by image processing software. © Science/AAAS Add one more item to the...
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Algorithm Can Tell If Your Smile is Happy or Born of Frustration
Happy or Mad? Can you tell which of these smiles is showing happiness, or which one is the result of frustration? A computer system developed at MIT can. The answer: The smile on the right is the sign...
View ArticleFree Software Tool Aims To Fight Government Secrecy
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), first enacted in 1966 provides a way for citizens, activists, and journalists to coax information out of the government. The Government doesn't make this easy,...
View ArticleAlgoraves Are The Nerdiest Way To Get Your Dance On
Nerds, gather at the dance party! It's time to algorave. Meaning the DJs will be spinning algorithms, not just dropping beats. At an algorave, DJs compose musical…
View ArticleScientists Can Tell Your Ethnicity From The Germs In Your Mouth
Every human mouth is unique. In each, a diverse microbial community thrives, in the spit, the plaque, and under the gums. The bacterial cocktail is a little different for…
View ArticleCan Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed?
Give up now. Facebook knows everything. According to a new paper, the makeup of your Facebook network might even be able to tell you when your relationship isn't going to…
View ArticleAnts Playing Chess Find New Solutions To Old Problem
Remove all the pieces from a chess board except for one knight. Then try to move the knight across all 64 squares of the board, touching each once. (As a reminder, knights move in a L-shape, two...
View ArticleAn Essay-Writing Machine Made To Fool Other Machines
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, we're taking bets. The fight is machine versus machine. Will one of them be able to spot the tricks of the other? Machine #1 is an…
View ArticleAlgorithm Reveals Link Between Sour Cream And Traffic Accidents
Data suggest: marriages in Alabama are causing deaths by electrocution, divorces in South Carolina are causing bees to produce more honey, and Nicolas Cage movies are…
View ArticleRobot Reads Novels, Writes Songs About Them
If a robot read a novel, how would it feel? You might get a sense from these little jingles. Below are some songs that were automatically created by a series of algorithms…
View ArticleAssociated Press Will Use Robots To Write Articles
The venerated AP now plans to generate and sell thousands of automated business articles a year. The robot-written stories will bring up the AP's story count in this area…
View ArticleLike-Fueled Algorithm Knows Facebook Users Better Than Their Family
Every day, Facebook learns more and more about each person who uses it. Clicking a “like” affirms an interest and teaches the machine valuable information about its users.
View ArticleGoogle's Knowledge Vault Helps Rank Sites By Accuracy
Google researchers have come up with a way to judge websites by their factual accuracy instead of just their popularity.
View ArticleRobot Learns To Walk With Damaged Legs
Robots don’t feel pain, which is good, because what this six-legged robot does would be almost impossible with anything even resembling a human nervous system. Published…
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British Police Scanned 90,000 Concert Goers' Faces
Download Festival 2011Mark Handscombe, via Wikimedia CommonsAt a music festival called “Download,” British police scanned 90,000 faces to look for criminals, and then promptly deleted them all. Held...
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It’s Surprisingly Hard To Make A Funny Robot
[insert caption here]Radev et al, 2015, arxivOne of the cartoons used in the studyArtificial intelligence can do a lot of things, like recognizing your face or identifying good art. But it still can’t...
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MIT and Google's New Algorithm Removes Reflections and Fences From Photos
Tianfan Xue/ ScreenshotA look at capturing a short video through glass for Google and MIT's distraction-removing algorithm.There’s something that Little League baseball games, the zoo, and the top of...
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