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Water clouds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot mean alien life 'can't be ruled out' - Fox News
Fox News
Fox News
In a stunning scientific discovery, researchers have found water clouds inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot, raising the prospect that life may exist on the planet. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm that has been continuously observed since 1830, still ...
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The Turk: Wolfgang von Kempelen's Fake Automaton Chess Player - Interesting Engineering
Interesting Engineering
Interesting Engineering
The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. The invention was ... The machine was introduced as a chess playing automaton capable of beating even the strongest ...
Researchers Explain a Really Simple Way to Tell if a Video Is a 'Deepfake' - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert
The technology is improving rapidly, and the competition between generating and detecting fake videos is analogous to a chess game. In particular, blinking can be added to deepfake videos by including face images with closed eyes or using video ...
ITRI's Tech Showcase Shines at IFA 2018 | Ap | mysuncoast.com - WWSB ABC 7
WWSB ABC 7
BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 31, 2018--IFA, the largest tradeshow for consumer electronics and home appliances in Europe, takes place from August 31 st ...
ITRI's Tech Showcase Shines at IFA 2018 - Hastings Tribune
Hastings Tribune
BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 31, 2018--IFA, the largest tradeshow for consumer electronics and home appliances in Europe, takes place from August 31 st to September 5 th this year at Messe Berlin. Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ) ...
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The Turk: Wolfgang von Kempelen's Fake Automaton Chess Player - Interesting Engineering
The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century.
ITRI's Tech Showcase Shines at IFA 2018 - Business Wire
BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IFA, the largest tradeshow for consumer electronics and home appliances in Europe, takes place from August 31st to September ...
UW–Madison center takes lead in improving mental health services in Great Lakes region - University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), housed in UW–Madison's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a $3.7 million, five-year grant to serve as the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center for HHS Region 5 ...
In dogs, CRISPR fixes a muscular dystrophy - Science Magazine
Science Magazine
Fighting fire with fire, researchers working with dogs have fixed a genetic glitch that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) by further damaging the DNA. The unusual approach, using the genome editor CRISPR, allowed a mutated gene to again make ...
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The Alzheimer's gamble - Science Magazine
Science Magazine
Science Magazine
The U.S. government had begun to ramp up research spending on the neurodegenerative condition, which is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States and will afflict an estimated 14 million people in this country by 2050. “There was an ...
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In the ongoing 'math wars,' both sides have a point - The Globe and ... - The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
Brent Davis is currently a Werklund Research Professor at the University of Calgary. John Mighton is a writer and mathematician and is the founder of JUMP ...
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Caruana Talks: Sinquefield Ending, GCT Finals, World Championship - Chess.com
Fabiano Caruana languished. Then he led. Then he was chased. Then he was caught. Then he was tied. Then he was tied, again. Then he negotiated. Then he ...
Sinquefields donate $50 million to St. Louis University - Herald-Whig
Herald-Whig
Part of the donation will be used to start the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research. Another portion will go to the university's chess program. Sinquefield is a staunch supporter of chess and has played a key role in making St. Louis one of ...
New Malawi chess VP Mtumbuka shares Namangale's vision to increase schools participation - Nyasa Times
Nyasa Times
Nyasa Times
For chess to develop further in the bid to produce a Malawian Grandmaster, there is need to increase schools participation by training many students and providing them with regular tournaments as a platform for exposure and experience. ... They have to ...
SLU gets record gift of $50 million to boost research | St. Louis ... - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
Local philanthropists Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield are donating $50 million to Saint Louis University to help bolster the school's research efforts. The gift.
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Donation to St. Louis University is Largest in School's History - KBIA
KBIA
Part of the donation will be used to start the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research. Another portion will go to the university's chess program. Sinquefield is a staunch supporter of chess and has played a key role in making St. Louis one of ...
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Caruana Wins Playoff, Earns Grand Chess Tour Finals Spot - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
Photo: Mike Klein/Chess.com. After nine rapid games, 18 blitz games, nine classical games, and a playoff negotiation, here's the second rapid game today that finally gave Caruana the break he's been wanting. Even the final game went the full term—both ...
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'Survival of the laziest': Finally, a scientific reason to stay on the couch - Virginian-Pilot
Virginian-Pilot
But consider this: All that exercise may be a selfish act - a shortsighted game of checkers in an evolutionary chess match that's been going on for eons. And by not stepping off ... He said more research is necessary, including on other species. Strotz ...
Online Smartphone & Tablet Games Market Supply-Demand, Industry Research and End User Analysis, Outlook 2023 - IDA Report
IDA Report
RPG ,Action type ,Sports competition ,Racing ,Chess type ,Other. North America Online Smartphone Tablet Games Market: Application Segment Analysis (Consumption Volume and Market Share 2013-2023; Downstream Customers and Market Analysis).
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Worldwide gun death tally now above 250000 per year: study - CTV News
CTV News
CTV News
Researchers counted about 209,000 gun deaths in 1990 compared to 251,000 in 2016. The average rate, about 4 per 100,000 people, was mostly unchanged. Two-thirds of the deaths in 2016 were homicides, although the U.S. is among wealthy countries ...
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