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Is Reliable Artificial Intelligence Possible?
Artificial intelligence technology should be openly available, according to researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in France.
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Nanoscale Logic Machines Go Beyond Binary Computing
An international team of academic researchers has built minuscule logic machines that physically model computational problems and exploit the innate randomness...
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Doubts About Whether Internet Filters Protect Teenagers Online
Researchers surveyed 515 teenagers and their parents about whether they used technical tools to control or manage access to online content.
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Scientists Develop a System That Predicts the Behavior of Tsunamis in Less Than 10 Minutes
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain say they have developed a simulator that needs only 10 minutes to predict the behavior of tsunamis generated by...
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Why We Should Not Know Our Own Passwords
There is active research transpiring in the area of unknowable password development.
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It's Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show
A security loophole that would allow someone to add extra steps to the counter on your Fitbit monitor might seem harmless. But researchers say it points to the...
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Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes Help Probe Mysteries of Evolution
Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pondered what would happen if the cassette "tape of life" were rewound and played again.
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Vint Cerf: It's On All of S to Fight Online Abuse, Fake News
The father of the internet says social pressure -- people collectively saying, "This is wrong" -- is crucial to battling misinformation and harassment.
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Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It
World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order to sustain the Web as beneficial for everyone.
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Floods and Hurricanes Predicted With Social Media
Social media can be used to warn people about floods, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events before they transpire by focusing on photos and keywords posted...
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Quantum Computer Learns to 'see' Trees
St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they say could help scientists use other quantum systems for complicated...
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Girls Now Outnumber Boys in High School Stem, but Still Lag in College and Career
Although girls currently comprise about 50% of the enrollment in U.S. high school science and math classes, they still lag their male counterparts in college and...
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Researchers Create 'time Crystals' Envisioned By Princeton Scientists
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Maryland have generated time crystals based on the theoretical work of Princeton University scientists. ...
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The Quest to Crystallize Time
Christopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light.
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Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of...
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Sharing the Fares
The potential for urban ride-sharing is similar for a variety of cities all over the world.
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Brainlike Computers Are a Black Box. Scientists Are Finally Peering Inside
Researchers say they have developed a method for examining neural networks as they operate and visualizing how they reach conclusions.
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Codella Aims to Teach Latina Girls Another Vital Language: Coding
The Miami, FL-based CODeLLA project was launched in 2013 to encourage Latina girls ages 8-12 to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Counting Microbes on a Smartphone
Researchers have developed a smartphone app which they say provides a cost-effective and accurate alternative to the traditionally labor-intensive task of counting...
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