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Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive...
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GoFly Prize nveils 10 Winning Designs in $2M Contest for Personal Air Vehicles
The first phase of the GoFly Prize competition for one-person air vehicles has yielded 10 diverse concepts.
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Computer Algorithms Can Test the Dodginess of Published Results
Researchers have developed a method for algorithmically gauging manipulation of published scientific results.
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AI Drone Learns to Detect Brawls
Researchers used deep learning to develop a drone surveillance system that automatically detects small groups of people fighting each other.
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Forgotten Corner of Europe Brought Back to Life, Thanks to AI
Researchers used artificial intelligence methods to learn of previously unknown political and cultural events which took place in a forgotten corner of the Austrian...
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Researchers Investigate Potential Threat to Speech Privacy via Smartphone Motion Sensors
Researchers have determined that smartphone motion sensors could be exploited to compromise speech privacy, albeit in limited situations.
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Spotlight Falls on Russian Threat to ndersea Cables
The Trump administration's new sanctions on Russia are casting light on the threat posed to the undersea cables that carry the world's electronic communications...
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If You're A Facebook ser, You're Also a Research Subject
The professor was incredulous.
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Seafloor Fiber Optic Cables Can Work Like Seismometers
There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones.
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Participation in AP Computer Science Principles Grows Again
Between last year and this year, the number of students taking the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles exam increased by about 50%.
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MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
Researchers have developed an ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tag-sensor configuration that senses spikes in glucose and wirelessly transmits...
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Anti-Swearing AI Takes the Edge Off Abuse on Reddit and Twitter
IBM researchers have developed a system that translates offensive comments on social media into more polite language, while keeping the content intact.
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Intelligent Awareness System to Improve Safety on Passenger Ferry
The marine division of Rolls-Royce has introduced a situational awareness and intelligence system to reduce the risk of ferry collisions and night-time groundings...
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Computer Program Looks Five Minutes Into the Future
Self-learning software can predict actions five minutes into the future by first learning typical sequences of events from video footage, and then predicting actions...
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Drone Swarms Are the New Fireworks Lighting Up China's Skies
Since China banned fireworks across more than 400 cities to reduce pollution, a new entertainment has emerged to fill the skies: drone swarms.
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Ramp-p in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new...
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Colliding Wormholes May Be Causing Gravitational Waves
One of the most significant scientific developments of recent times has been the five separate observations of the elusive ripples in space-time known as gravitational...
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Novel Transmitter Protects Wireless Data From Hackers
A new transmitter can hack-proof wireless data by frequency hopping each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet, every microsecond.
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New Algorithm Fuses Quality, Quantity in Satellite Imagery
University of Illinois researchers have developed an algorithm that combines high-resolution and high-frequency satellite data into one integrated product.
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