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Google, -M to Build Digital Tools For Flint Water Crisis
Researchers at Google and the University of Michigan's Flint and Ann Arbor campuses will develop digital tools to help Flint, MI, manage its water crisis.
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The Search for Our Missing Colors
Each year, a group of experts at Pantone, the company best known for its exacting color-matching system, chooses and promotes a Color of the Year that aims to set...
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...
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The Leap Second: Because Our Clocks Are More Accurate Than the Earth
We've recently been treated to that extra day in February that reminds us that 2016 is a leap year.
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New Tech Uses Hardware, Software to Train Dogs More Efficiently
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a customized suite of technologies that enables a computer to autonomously train a dog.
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Researchers Develop Dissolvable Memristor
A research team from China and the U.K. has produced a memristor-like device made from egg proteins, magnesium, and tungsten.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Create the Next Wonder Material?
It's a strong contender for the geekiest video ever made: a close-up of a smartphone with line upon line of numbers and symbols scrolling down the screen. But when...
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Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries
If you've ever run a business, whether it's an ice cream shop or a Fortune 500 company, then you've probably kept a ledger.
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Found: Clues About Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
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Ibm Inches Ahead of Google in Race For Quantum Computing Power
All kinds of things are hooked up to the Internet these days, but Jerry Chow's computer stands out. Chilled by liquid helium, his superconducting processor uses...
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Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world's largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square...
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Hiding in the Sunshine: The Search for Other Earths
We humans might not be the only ones to ponder our place in the universe.
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Machines Can Learn to Respond to New Situations Like Human Beings Would
KU Leuven researchers have shown machines can learn to respond to unfamiliar objects like a human would.
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The Government Wants Your Fingerprint to nlock Your Phone. Should that Be Allowed?
As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, federal officials were quietly waging a different...
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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The Struggle with Image Glut
As the fruit-fly larva wriggles forwards in the video, a crackle of neural activity shoots up its half-millimetre-long body.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Crosses Rugged Plateau
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has nearly finished crossing a stretch of the most rugged and difficult-to-navigate terrain encountered during the mission's 44 months...
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Asc16 Student Supercomputer Challenge Results Are In
The top prize in the Asia Supercomputer Community's 2016 Student Supercomputer Challenge went to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology team.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...
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