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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience 
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience 

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.

Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution
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Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution

Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.

Highly Flexible Organic Flash Memory For Foldable and Disposable Electronics
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Highly Flexible Organic Flash Memory For Foldable and Disposable Electronics

A new ultra-flexible organic flash memory can be applied to non-conventional substrates, such as plastics and papers.

Cosmos Code Helps Probe Space Oddities
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Cosmos Code Helps Probe Space Oddities

The Cosmos computer code is driving supercomputer models of black hole jets and is used to investigate other unusual space phenomena.

Facebook Can Make Your Profile Pic Wink and Scowl
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Facebook Can Make Your Profile Pic Wink and Scowl

Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...

Tv Show Gives Computers a Lead in Solving Problems
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Tv Show Gives Computers a Lead in Solving Problems

Researchers have taught artificially intelligent machines to study the TV show "CSI" and identify the perpetrator in each episode.

A Robotic Spy Among the Fish
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A Robotic Spy Among the Fish

Researchers have developed a miniature robot that can integrate perfectly into schools of zebrafish.

Slac Knows How the ­niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
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Slac Knows How the ­niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs

You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.

Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption

The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...

Researchers Develop Flexible, Stretchable Photonic Devices
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Researchers Develop Flexible, Stretchable Photonic Devices

Researchers have made flexible and stretchable photonic devices using a specialized type of glass formed into a spring-like coil.

Chip-Based Sensors With Incredible Sensitivity
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Chip-Based Sensors With Incredible Sensitivity

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created an optical whispering gallery mode resonator.

Salesforce AI Researchers Came ­p With a Faster Way to Translate Text--and It's Based on Tech From Google
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Salesforce AI Researchers Came ­p With a Faster Way to Translate Text--and It's Based on Tech From Google

Salesforce artificial intelligence researchers have disclosed details of their project to translate text without human input, using Google's Transformer system....

Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors
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Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors

Researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to enhance Hasbro's Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with...

Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption
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Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption

Organizations like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have a hard time cracking suspects' smartphones, thanks to end-to-end encryption.

Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer
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Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a technique to transfer quantum information between systems that are encoded in different ways...

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...

Fbi Again Finds Itself ­nable to ­nlock a Gunman's Cellphone
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Fbi Again Finds Itself ­nable to ­nlock a Gunman's Cellphone

The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what...

Choreography With Computers
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Choreography With Computers

Singapore Management University professor Akshat Kumar is developing computational methods for choreographing the movements of autonomous cars and ships.

Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery
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Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery

Computer science researchers recently helped to make a major advance in astronomy, as scientists announced last month they observed two neutron stars colliding....

Touch-Sensitive Avatar-Robotic Arm Based on Real-Time Haptics
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Touch-Sensitive Avatar-Robotic Arm Based on Real-Time Haptics

Researchers say they have developed a "real-time-avatar-robotic arm" that transmits sound, vision, and tactile sensations to remotely located users.
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