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A Manifesto For Algorithms in the Environment
Researchers at Stockholm University researcher are developing a Biosphere Code Manifesto.
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Jpl's Role in Making 'the Martian' a Reality
When fictional astronaut Mark Watney becomes stranded alone on the Red Planet in the novel and film "The Martian," people and technology from NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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Activist Bots Recruit Humans to Their Cause on Twitter
The Botivist program uses Twitter to rally people to social causes, thanks to the efforts of Saiph Savage and colleagues at West Virginia University.
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...
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The Future of Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Beyond
When the digital currency Bitcoin came to life in January 2009, it was noticed by almost no one apart from the handful of programmers who followed cryptography...
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Researchers Develop Deep-Learning Method to Predict Daily Activities
Researchers have developed a new method to train computers to recognize and comprehend a wide range of human activities in a single day.
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On What Facebook Knows--An Interview With the Man Behind Facebook's Personality Experiment
A researcher discusses a report issued earlier this year on how individuals' Facebook activities could be used to measure their psychological profiles.
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More-Flexible Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...
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Got 'em! Researchers Steal Crypto Keys From Amazon Cloud
Worchester Polytechnic Institute researchers have demonstrated how to use an instance of Amazon EC2 to recover the full 2,048-bit RSA key from a separate Amazon...
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Picture This: An App For Blind Photographers
A University of California, Santa Cruz researcher has developed a smartphone app that helps visually-impaired users handle their photos.
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...
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Martian Life Could Be a Biotech Bonanza
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...
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Pluto's Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon—and these pictures show a surprisingly...
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Hidden Gps Devices to Track Suspects Raise Legal Concerns
For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie and black ski mask...
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New Tech Automatically 'tunes' Powered Prosthetics While Walking
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can automatically tune powered prosthetic legs.
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Meet Seemore: Maker Faire's Mesmerizing 256-Node Computer Cluster
One of the centerpieces of the recent World Maker Faire in New York City was SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed to illustrate the concept of parallel computing...
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IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors
IBM scientists on Thursday reported they have found a method to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.
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Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence.
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