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Nasa's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet
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Nasa's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet

Preparation of NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California...

Conditions Like Those Inside Neptune Cause Diamond Formation
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Conditions Like Those Inside Neptune Cause Diamond Formation

Carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen are some of the easiest heavier elements to form through fusion.

Niac Cybersecurity Report Regarding Critical Infrastructure Issued
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Niac Cybersecurity Report Regarding Critical Infrastructure Issued

The draft report warns the U.S. is falling short on its ability to defend critical systems against aggressive cyberattacks.

Big Brother Is Watching You
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Big Brother Is Watching You

Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.

How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts

Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.

A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind

When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.

Your Broadband Provider Can ­se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You
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Your Broadband Provider Can ­se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You

How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own...

Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'backdoors'
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Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'backdoors'

Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works.

Cryptographers and Geneticists ­nite to Analyze Genomes They Can't See
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Cryptographers and Geneticists ­nite to Analyze Genomes They Can't See

Stanford University cryptographer Dan Boneh and geneticist Gill Bejerano have developed a secure multiparty computation algorithm to discover disease-linked genetic...

Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too
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Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too

Researchers have developed a way for high school students and first-year engineering students to learn robot intelligence technologies.

Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions

Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor...

Revolutionary Approach Brings 3D Sound Into the Living Room
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Revolutionary Approach Brings 3D Sound Into the Living Room

Researchers have developed the Media Device Orchestration concept, which helps create a three-dimensional audio experience using common home devices.

Breakthrough Could Make Quantum Data Transmission a Reality
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Breakthrough Could Make Quantum Data Transmission a Reality

Researchers have relayed a quantum-secured message containing multiple bits of information for each photon through the air above a city.

Collection of Letters By Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet
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Collection of Letters By Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet

The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.

For Astronomers, a Neutron Star Merger Could Eclipse the Eclipse
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For Astronomers, a Neutron Star Merger Could Eclipse the Eclipse

Late last week, as some staff astronomers embarked on trips to see Monday's solar eclipse, two of NASA's space-based observatories—Hubble and Chandra X-ray—and...

How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts

As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.

World's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Help Boost China's Growing Sea Power
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World's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Help Boost China's Growing Sea Power

China is planning to boost its computing power tenfold within a couple of years by building the world's first exascale computer with a dedicated mission of helping...

Major Leap Towards Storing Data at the Molecular Level
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Major Leap Towards Storing Data at the Molecular Level

Researchers at the University of Manchester proved that data storage is possible in individual molecules at -213 degrees Celsius, which is extremely close to the...

Why AI Visionary Andrew Ng Teaches Humans to Teach Computers
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Why AI Visionary Andrew Ng Teaches Humans to Teach Computers

Stanford University professor Andrew Ng's current area of concentration is teaching next-generation artificial intelligence specialists to train computers.

Nsf Announces $17.7m in Awards For Cross-Disciplinary Data Sciences Projects
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Nsf Announces $17.7m in Awards For Cross-Disciplinary Data Sciences Projects

The U.S. National Science Foundation will allocate $17.7 million to fund 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science projects that support research...
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