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No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data
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No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data

Two robotic sailboats trace lawn-mower-style paths across the violent surface of the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska.

Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
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Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments...

Msu Technology Could Help Keep Elderly Safe in Their Homes
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Msu Technology Could Help Keep Elderly Safe in Their Homes

Michigan State University researchers are exploring whether home Wi-Fi systems can preserve the privacy of the elderly while detecting abnormal events in their...

Keystroke Recognition ­ses Wi-Fi Signals to Snoop
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Keystroke Recognition ­ses Wi-Fi Signals to Snoop

Researchers have learned how to use off-the-shelf computer gear and a standard Wi-Fi connection to read keystrokes from a person in close proximity.

Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data
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Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data

Researchers say they have developed a method to automatically generate complete three-dimensional building models of a given area by using partial images.

Philae Found!
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Philae Found!

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?

What Starlight Teaches ­S About Space (pretty Much Everything)
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What Starlight Teaches ­S About Space (pretty Much Everything)

In the southern sky, there is a constellation called Centaurus, its arms outstretched and its flanks straddling the famous Southern Cross.

How Machine Learning Can Help With Voice Disorders
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How Machine Learning Can Help With Voice Disorders

A new diagnostic approach using machine learning could help detect speech disorders exacerbated by vocal misuse.

Colors From Darkness: Researchers Develop Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing
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Colors From Darkness: Researchers Develop Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing

Aalto University researchers in Finland have demonstrated the suitability of microwave signals in the coding of information for quantum computing.

Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
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Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research

A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere.

Poker-Playing AI 'bot' Carries Long-Range Impact
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Poker-Playing AI 'bot' Carries Long-Range Impact

Florida International University professor Sam Ganzfried says computer poker research generates ideas that are starting to have applications in medicine and security...

Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance
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Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance

Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.

Digitizing Photography's 'genome'
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Digitizing Photography's 'genome'

Bringing computer science to art history.

A Call From Outer Space, or a Cosmic Wrong Number?
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A Call From Outer Space, or a Cosmic Wrong Number?

It's probably just a piece of cosmic spam, the astrophysical equivalent of butt dialing. But nobody really knows for sure.

Inferring ­rban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data
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Inferring ­rban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data

A new computational system can use cellphone location data to infer urban mobility patterns.

This AI Software Can Tell If You're at Risk From Cancer Before Symptoms Appear
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This AI Software Can Tell If You're at Risk From Cancer Before Symptoms Appear

Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk.

So Much for Counter-Phishing Training: Half of People Click Anything Sent to Them
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So Much for Counter-Phishing Training: Half of People Click Anything Sent to Them

Security experts often talk about the importance of educating people about the risks of "phishing" e-mails containing links to malicious websites. But sometimes...

Revealed: Google's Plan For Quantum Computer Supremacy
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Revealed: Google's Plan For Quantum Computer Supremacy

Somewhere in California, Google is building a device that will usher in a new era for computing.

Forget Software: Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics
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Forget Software: Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics

Practically every word we use to describe a computer is a metaphor.
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