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Pulses of Light to Encrypt Data and Protect Security of Cryptocurrencies
Researchers have developed a frequency comb they think could encrypt data and bolster the security of cryptocurrency.
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Smart Buildings That Can Manage Our Electricity Needs
Researchers have developed a system to collect data on consumers' energy usage and comfort within buildings.
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Big Bets on A.i. Open a New Frontier For Chip Start-ps, Too
For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Emerged from the Freezer
After spending three months at a temperature of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero, the massive James Webb Space Telescope emerged from a large vacuum...
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Geocarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas
A new NASA Earth science mission in the early stages of design may achieve a transformational advance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by mapping...
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Incorporating Social Media Reviews Can Improve Surveillance of Restaurant Health Problems
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has used a system that tracks food-borne illness via online Yelp restaurant reviews to identify instances...
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Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse.
Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.
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Bbva Foundation Recognizes Goldwasser, Micali, Rivest, Shamir, For Enabling a Secure Digital Society
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category goes to Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest...
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How to See a Memory
For someone who's not a Sherlock superfan, cognitive neuroscientist Janice Chen knows the BBC's hit detective drama better than most.
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Nasa Test Proves Pulsars Can Function as a Celestial Gps
From its perch aboard the International Space Station, a NASA experiment has shown how future missions might navigate their way through deep space.
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Developing a Secure, n-Hackable Net
A team of researchers say they have developed a technique of securely communicating among three or more quantum devices, regardless of who made them.
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'holostream' Allows High-Quality Wireless 3D Video Communications
Holostream is a new platform enabling high-quality three-dimensional video communications on mobile devices.
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...
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Student Device Detects Potholes, Car Crashes
Researchers say they have developed a device that can detect car crashes and alert emergency services.
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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley For Riches Back Home
A few years ago, Wang Yi was living the American dream. He had graduated from Princeton, landed a job at Google and bought a spacious condo in Silicon Valley.
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When Wi-Fi Won't Work, Let Sound Carry Your Data
If you've ever struggled to pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or set up a wireless printer, you know that it's often easier to connect to a server halfway...
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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Driverless Cars Might Follow the Rules of the Road, but What About the Language of Driving?
Navigating the complexity of unspoken rules and social and linguistic cues to communicate with drivers, pedestrians, and others sharing the road is a challenge...
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