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The new control system drones was much the usual joystick
Nowadays a variety of drones is no surprise, and if management is not standardized, it is certainly not much different between different models. However, the staff of the Federal Polytechnic school of Lausanne (Switzerland) have developed a system to control the drones using movements of the body. After a series of tests, the researchers came…
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Google translator can bring a lot of money, if add is
The company Google is an incredibly popular products that consistently bring her income from advertising. Among such products, you can select Google search, YouTube, Google Docs and Gmail. There is another very popular product that we don’t see ads, but that could change if Google wants to earn more. Talking about the interpreter. On a…
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Four (not entirely) easy steps to General artificial intelligence (AIS)
“For 15 years, since I first introduced the term “artificial General intelligence” (AGI), the area AI has advanced considerably. Today we have driverless cars, automated facial recognition and image capture, machine translation and expert players in the face of AI, and much more,” says Ben Goertzel, CEO decentralized network SingularityNET. Hereinafter in the first person.…
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Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate
Lunar surface image taken during Apollo 11 mission.Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr) The Moon today is not habitable. It’s covered in potentially killer dust and seemingly dry as a bone. But though it seems wild to think, a new perspective wonders: What if the Moon used to be friendly to life? Scientist Dirk…
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Here’s Why Google Chrome Is Telling You Your Favorite Sites Aren’t Secure
Photo: Patrick Austin (Gizmodo) Google’s throwing its weight around and using its latest edition of its Chrome browser to make the web a little safer by shaming sites that haven’t implemented the more secure data transfer protocol HTTPS–which keeps bad actors from digitally watching over your shoulder as you browser. BBC reported the browser’s URL…
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Generic Viagra Trial Among Pregnant Women Shuts Down After 11 Newborn Deaths
Photo: Christopher Furlong (Getty Images) A Dutch trial meant to study whether sildenafil, otherwise known as Viagra, can prevent children from being born with low birth weight has been halted early amid a wave of tragic deaths. Nearly 100 pregnant women were given the drug during their pregnancy in the trial, and 11 babies later…
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Apple Promises Fix for Throttled MacBook Pros, But That Might Not Solve Everything
Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) After numerous reports popped up claiming that Apple’s recently refreshed MacBook Pro were suffering from lackluster performance, in a statement released today, Apple officially confirmed issues related to excessive heat generation in new MBPs and promised that the company will release a patch to address the problem later today. Apple says…
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Google Employees’ Secret to Never Getting Phished Is Using Physical Security Keys
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New American Particle Collider Gets Thumbs Up From National Academies of Sciences
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, one of two labs that may one day host the Electron Ion ColliderPhoto: DOE’s Jefferson Lab A proposed billion-dollar American particle collider has received enthusiastic backing from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, according to a newly released report. This proposed “electron-ion collider,” or EIC, would…
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To Fool This Iris Scanner, You’re Gonna Need a Really Fresh Eyeball
Screenshot: arXiv The researchers concluded that the changes to eyes photographed less than five hours after death were not “pronounced enough” for their neural network to correctly classify them as alive or dead. These post-mortem indicators included blurring of the edges of the iris and changes to the pupil. Their system, however, had no problem with…