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How Facebook's Political ­nit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
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How Facebook's Political ­nit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda

Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...

Why Doesn't the N.f.l. ­se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?
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Why Doesn't the N.f.l. ­se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?

It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.

­.s. Army Partners with Marine Corps on 3-D Printed Drones
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­.s. Army Partners with Marine Corps on 3-D Printed Drones

U.S. Army researchers are working with the Marines Corps to develop drones that can be 3-D printed on demand, possibly in a matter of minutes.

Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue
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Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue

On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.

Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8g
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Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8g

It was 8 a.m. in Ramón Rivera's elevator and the morning rush was on. The buzzer rang.

The Researcher Who Wants to Bring AI to Factories
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The Researcher Who Wants to Bring AI to Factories

Gargantuan Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn employs more than 1 million people and tens of thousands of robots making iPhones and other electronics.

Researchers Use Wwii Code-Breaking Techniques to Interpret Brain data
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Researchers Use Wwii Code-Breaking Techniques to Interpret Brain data

A team of researchers used cryptographic techniques to decode the activity of motor neurons, which allowed them to predict, from brain data, which direction monkeys...

It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments
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It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments

The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...

The Force Is Strong: Amputee Controls Individual Prosthetic Fingers
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The Force Is Strong: Amputee Controls Individual Prosthetic Fingers

Luke Skywalker's bionic hand is a step closer to reality for amputees in this galaxy. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created an ultrasonic...

Plunge Into a (virtual Reality) Black Hole
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Plunge Into a (virtual Reality) Black Hole

Imagine, in the frigid depths of space, a pair of immense black holes crashing together so violently that they shake the fabric of space and time.

A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of Iot
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A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of Iot

The Internet of Things security crisis persists, as billions of inadequately secured webcams, refrigerators, and more flood homes around the world.

How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street
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How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street

It was AI versus Warren Buffett.

Virtual Reality ­sers Must Learn to ­se What They See
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Virtual Reality ­sers Must Learn to ­se What They See

Users wearing a virtual reality headset don't perceive the virtual world like the real world — at least not without training, researchers say.

Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says. 
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Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says. 

The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition...

From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an ­nexpected Digital Hub
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From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an ­nexpected Digital Hub

This is one of the most remote towns in the United States, a small gravel spit on the northwest coast of Alaska, more than 3,700 miles from New York City. Icy seas...

Wearable Computing Ring Allows ­sers to Write Words and Numbers with Thumb
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Wearable Computing Ring Allows ­sers to Write Words and Numbers with Thumb

Georgia Tech researchers have created technology that allows people, with the whirl of a thumb, to trace letters and numbers on their fingers and see the figures...

Australian Man ­ses Snack Bags as Faraday Cage to Block Tracking By Employer
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Australian Man ­ses Snack Bags as Faraday Cage to Block Tracking By Employer

A 60-year-old electrician in Perth, Western Australia had his termination upheld by a labor grievance commission when it was determined he had been abusing his...

Music, Engineering Researchers team Up to Turn Big Data Into Sound
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Music, Engineering Researchers team Up to Turn Big Data Into Sound

A unique collaboration between a music professor and an engineering professor at Virginia Tech will result in the creation of a new platform for data analysis that...

AI Is Dreaming ­p New Kinds of Video Games
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AI Is Dreaming ­p New Kinds of Video Games

Michael Cook, a 30-year-old senior research fellow at the University of Falmouth, has built an AI capable of imagining new video games from scratch.

Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds
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Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds

A new study by a team of neuroscientists shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain.
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