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Bright Spots and Color Differences Revealed on Ceres
Scientists from NASA's Dawn mission unveiled new images from the spacecraft's lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly anticipated views of Occator Crater, at the...
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Fbi Director Says Fight with Apple About Terrorism, Not Setting Precedent
James Comey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, is defending the agency's legal battle with Apple, saying it is about fighting terrorism and not about...
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Why You Should Be Skeptical That Any Video Is Real
Be careful about believing what your eyes are telling you.
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How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers to Be Funny
The New Yorker magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms to mine a massive volume of cartoon caption submissions to identify the funniest captions.
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Supercomputer Simulates Whole-Body Blood Flow
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.
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A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany
My dad is a wildlife biologist, and during road trips we took when I was growing up he spent a lot of time talking about the grasses and trees along the highway...
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The Black-Hole Collision That Reshaped Physics
The event was catastrophic on a cosmic scale—a merger of black holes that violently shook the surrounding fabric of space and time, and sent a blast of space-time...
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How the Hell Could the FBI Hack Into That iPhone?
You know that part about the FBI needing Apple's help to unlock a terrorist's iPhone 5C?
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What's the Year, Make, and Model of Your Vehicular Cloud?
Old Dominion University engineers want to use Internet-connected cars as a cloud computing resource.
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Envisioning Supercomputers of the Future
The Argo Project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy has enlisted 40 researchers to devise a new approach for extreme-scale system software.
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Human Eyes Assist Drones, Teach Machines to See
Researchers have developed a new strategy combining crowdsourcing and machine learning for rapidly interpreting aerial images captured by camera drones.
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Scientists on Verge of Developing Emotional Computer
Researchers plan to develop a computer agent imbued with both narrative and emotional intellect.
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From Reagan's Cyber Plan to Apple Vs. Fbi: 'everything Is p For Grabs'
The heated debate between the FBI and Apple over the encryption of the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two people who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino...
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The Data Lake Concept Is Maturing
Meeting the needs of the new era of big data analytics.
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New Gravity Map Gives Best View Yet Inside Mars
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet...
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Apple Gets Short-Term Win, But New Mysterious Fbi nlocking Method Looms
Less than 24 hours before a highly anticipated Tuesday court session where prosecutors and Apple lawyers would have squared off here in federal court, government...
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DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain
The secretive U.S. military research division DARPA has announced plans to create a device that could accelerate learning in the human brain.
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The Meaning of Alphago, the AI Program That Beat a Go Champ
The victory of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo algorithm over a champion Go player is seen as a resurgence for deep learning.
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Mobile-Phone Health Apps Deliver Data Bounty
Last summer, physician Yvonne Chan wondered how the wildfires raging through Washington state were affecting people with asthma—for whom smoke and heat can trigger...
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