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To Speed p AI, Mix Memory and Processing
If John von Neumann were designing a computer today, there's no way he would build a thick wall between processing and memory. At least, that's what computer engineer Naresh...
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Companies Seek Ways to Hold On to Customer Data nder New E Privacy Law
Nicholas Oliver gathers reams of personal information about users of his mobile app: age, sex, location, profession, relationship status, and more—and uses it to...
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'Marsquakes' Could Shake p Planetary Science
Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars.
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The Scant Science Behind Cambridge Analytica's Controversial Marketing Techniques
The practices of Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics firm involved in US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, have made headlines around the world...
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Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
Thomas Metzinger had his first out-of-body experience when he was nineteen.
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A Needle in a Legal Haystack Could Sink a Major Supreme Court Privacy Case
It looks like one of the marquee cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is about to go bust—sabotaged by a needle in a legislative haystack.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars
Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual: The light from a galaxy had...
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The Secret Science That Rules Crowds
Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred in 2017 include incidents in an Angolan...
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IARPA Launches Challenge to Improve AV-Captured Imagery
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity recently announced the UG2 Prize Challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles, gliders, and ground data entries...
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Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to nlock Phones
Federal law enforcement officials are renewing a push for a legal mandate that tech companies build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access...
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Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers...
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Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.
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For the .S. and China, a Technology Cold War That's Freezing Over
A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier.
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Facebook's New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers
Last week, when news broke (again) that Cambridge Analytica had allegedly misused 50 million Facebook users' data, it immediately raised a difficult question: When...
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Looking for Planet Nine, Astronomers Gaze into the Abyss
It's been just over two years since Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin made an explosive claim: Based on the orbital motion of objects in the...
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Five New Ancient Genomes Tell s About Neanderthal Tribes
Mezmaiskaya Cave offered shelter to Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years. The cave, located near Russia's border with Georgia, preserved Neanderthal remains...
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Spot the Fake: Artificial Intelligence Can Produce Lifelike Photographs
Fraudulent images have been around for as long as photography itself. Take the famous hoax photos of the Cottingley fairies or the Loch Ness monster.
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Vint Cerf on the Prospect of a "Digital Dark Age"
Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf talks about the frailty and impermanence of digitally-stored information.
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