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Don't Use the Force, Luke, Use the Targeting Computer
Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...
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Melding Mind and Machine: How Close Are We?
Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today's imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality...
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Mobile-Phone Signals Bolster Street-Level Rain Forecasts
Meteorologists have long struggled to forecast storms and flooding at the level of streets and neighborhoods, but they may soon make headway thanks to the spread...
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'we All Love the Tomahawk:' A Brief History of .s.'s Favorite Robotic Killer
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...
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Why Are csd Scientists Disguising Themselves as Empty Car Seats?
Researchers are observing driver and pedestrian responses to "driverless" research vehicles on campus by wearing costumes resembling empty car seats.
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Dutch Smallest Computer
Researchers have constructed a small supercomputer from four servers with four professionalized graphics cards.
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...
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Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial with the Potential to Disrupt Everything
Consider three hair-pulling problems: 1 percent of the world's energy is used every year just to produce fertilizer; solar panels aren't powerful enough to provide...
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Science Reveals Yet Another Reason Octopuses and Squid Are So Weird
Octopuses are aliens living on Earth.
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23andme Given Green Light to Sell Dna Tests For 10 Diseases
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home genetic test that can help to determine a person's risk of developing certain diseases....
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Electronic Synapses That Can Learn: Towards an Artificial Brain?
European researchers from several institutions have developed an artificial synapse on a chip that can learn autonomously.
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Chinese Scientists Engineer Flexible, Faster-Swimming Robot
Chinese researchers have developed a flexible, remote-controlled robotic ray that can swim through water nearly twice as fast as previous robo-swimmers without...
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Information Storage With a Nanoscale Twist
Researchers have discovered a rotational force inside magnetic vortices, which they say could make it easier to design ultrahigh-capacity disk drives.
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How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry
Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel...
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Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones.
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Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector For High-Speed Data
Researchers have developed tiny "black holes" on a silicon wafer that serve as a new type of photodetector.
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The Diy Electronics Transforming Research
A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...
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Nasa's Cassini Mission Prepares For 'grand Finale' at Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story.
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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
Google operates what is surely the largest computer network on Earth, a system that comprises custom-built, warehouse-sized data centers spanning 15 locations in...
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