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A Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy
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A Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy

The timing of key press input on a touchscreen is unpredictable, and performance improves when the timing is made more predictable.

Biology May Hold Key to Better Computer Memory
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Biology May Hold Key to Better Computer Memory

Researchers at Boise State University are looking for a better way to store digital information using nucleic acid memory.

AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern

When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...

The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life

Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.

Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants

A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.

The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents
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The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents

Researchers from Colorado State University used non-polarized light to produce a spin voltage — a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual...

What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like

Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.

Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'

Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.

Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite
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Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite

NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...

Numerical Simulations Shed New Light on Early ­niverse
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Numerical Simulations Shed New Light on Early ­niverse

Computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory simulates conditions during the first few minutes of cosmological evolution to model the role of neutrinos...

Making Electronics Out of Coal
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Making Electronics Out of Coal

Instead of just burning coal, MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman says electronic devices should be made from the complex hydrocarbon.

Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon
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Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon

Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places—and much sooner than you might think.

All Hail Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, King of the Bots
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All Hail Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, King of the Bots

Mark Zuckerberg was once the boy king of Silicon Valley. Now he wants to be the bot king of Silicon Valley.

Arms Control Groups ­rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
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Arms Control Groups ­rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry

Two international arms control groups on Monday issued a report that called for maintaining human control over a new generation of weapons that are increasingly...

Our Top 5 Wacky Nasa Missions that Might Just Happen
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Our Top 5 Wacky Nasa Missions that Might Just Happen

Meet the space technologies of tomorrow—or maybe a decade after that.

Search For New Medical Treatments Zeroes in on Genetic Superheroes
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Search For New Medical Treatments Zeroes in on Genetic Superheroes

The hunt is on for people who are healthy—even though their genes say they shouldn't be.

Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
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Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing

Physicists at Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4, with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers...

Stabilizing Quantum Bits
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Stabilizing Quantum Bits

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to preserving superposition in a class of quantum devices built from synthetic diamonds. The work could be an important...

Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test

It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...

Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane
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Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight-tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster...
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