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Private Browsing Gets More Private
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...
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Edible Electronics Are Here Thanks to Researchers at Rice niversity
Researchers at Rice University say they have produced edible graphene.
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Teaching Quantum Physics to a Computer
Researchers have used machine learning to teach a computer to predict the outcomes of quantum experiments.
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Justices Struggle with .S. Demands for Overseas Data
The Supreme Court appeared to be divided Tuesday as it struggled to interpret whether a three-decade-old federal law gives the U.S. government the right to access...
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ncovering the Secrets of the 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'
"How did the 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' come to life? What steps did Vermeer take to make this painting?"
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How Did Life Begin? It's Chemistry 101, but in Space
How did life start? There may not be a bigger question.
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Microsoft's Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications For Data
Five years ago, US law enforcement served Microsoft a search warrant for emails as part of a US drug trafficking investigation. In response, Microsoft handed over...
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Can Neuroevolution Change Machine Learning?
Neuroevolution borrows techniques from natural evolution to push the boundaries of machine learning.
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Apple Moves to Store iCloud Keys in China, Raising Human Rights Fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities...
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Forecasts of Genetic Fate Just Got a Lot More Accurate
When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...
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Seven Ways Mars InSight is Different
NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force...
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Machine Learning With Limited Data
Researchers have developed a neural network system that requires fewer parameters and training images when working toward image-recognition technology.
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Making Data Storage Personal With #MemoriesInDNA
Researchers at the University of Washington have teamed with Microsoft and Twist Bioscience to encode 10,000 digital images into DNA.
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Real-Time Captcha Technique Improves Biometric Authentication
The Real-Time Captcha is a new login authentication approach designed to enhance the security of current biometric methods that rely on video or images of users'...
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AI Trained to Spot Heart Disease Risks sing Retina Scan
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County—a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state—asked David A. Eckhardt, a computer science...
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Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers
Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.
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Serious Quantum Computers Are Finally Here. What Are We Going to Do with Them?
Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This...
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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