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Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
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Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...
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Social Media Trends Can Predict Tipping Points in Vaccine Scares
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada found analyzing trends on Twitter and Google helped predict vaccine scares.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp on Reality
As deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies advance, the "Uncanny Valley"--the unease people feel toward realistic computer-generated humans--is beginning...
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People Don't Trust Driverless Cars. Researchers Are Trying to Change That
Industrial and academic researchers are attempting to overcome consumers' distrust of autonomous vehicles.
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How to Find the Truth on Twitter
Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate whether an event reported on Twitter is a likely witness account.
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How the Loss of Net Neutrality Could Change the Internet
The repeal of net neutrality ushers in a new chapter of the internet that could eventually transform the way Americans communicate, shop and consume information...
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Unprecedented Malware Targets Industrial Safety Systems in the Middle East
Since Stuxnet first targeted and destroyed uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran last decade, the cybersecurity world has waited for the next step in that digital...
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Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
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New Mapping Technique Can Help Fight Extreme Poverty
Researchers say they have developed a new way to create poverty maps by using computational tools such as cellphone records, data from satellites, and geographic...
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How Implants Powered By Ultrasound Can Help Monitor Health
Researchers have unveiled small implants designed for disease diagnosis and treatment by using ultrasound to safely beam both energy and instructions.
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Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers to Help Alleviate rban Traffic Problems
Researchers are working to develop tools enabling searchable traffic analyses using deep learning and data mining.
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AI Researchers Are Trying to Combat How AI Can Be sed to Lie and Deceive
Artificial intelligence researchers gathered last week to discuss measures against the technology's use for deceit and disinformation.
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Estonia, the Digital Republic
Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with the path of the sea, then breaks inland, leaving cars to follow a thin road toward the houses at the water's...
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Higher Education Not Neutral on Net Neutrality
The nature of today's Internet may mean trouble for the very community that birthed it, if network neutrality rules change.
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This Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Turn Any Line Drawing Into Ascii Art
Osamu Akiyama at Osaka University in Japan says he has developed a machine-learning neural network that can render any kind of line drawing in ASCII.
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Diagnosing Performance Problems in Supercomputers
The Lightweight Distributed Metric Service is a framework to automatically monitor and diagnose performance issues in supercomputers.
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Twitter Can Reveal Our Shared Mood
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have found that tweets reflect strong patterns of positive and negative moods over a 24-hour day.
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Revolutionizing Electronics sing Kirigami
Researchers in Japan have developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using Kirigami designs, which enables the device to follow the contours of deformable biological...
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