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The birth of the smartphone can be traced back to 1993 when IBM developed the Simon Personal Communicator.

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recently released a collection of these stunning images.While its fun to explore the world by zooming around on Google Earth.French PolynesiaCredit: Planet Labs

CyberRunner learns by collected experience.The model-based reinforcement learning algorithm learns how the system behaves.

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videoPlayerType: in-content });.The two organizations joined forces in 2014 in the hopes that Googles machine learning algorithms could advance plasma research and bring us closer to the dream of fusion power.

the algorithm presents human experts with successive pairs of possible outcomes and lets those experts use their judgment to choose between the two to direct subsequent experiments.But it turned out that even Google didnt have the computational resources to easily address this problem.

The challenge Tri Alpha Energy faced was that the enormous experimental complexity of its plasma research involved so many variables that it was desperately in need of some advanced computing networks to help wade through the data.Hot on the heels of last months nuclear fusion breakthrough comes the first results from a multi-year partnership between Google and Tri Alpha Energy