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Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
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'Human Brain' Supercomputer Switched On to nlock Secrets of the Mind
Researchers are about to launch a supercomputer designed to mimic the human brain.
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Fleets of Drones Could Aid Searches for Lost Hikers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an autonomous system to direct a fleet of drones.
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How to Encode a Secret Message in a Fingerprint
Researchers have developed a method for constructing digital fingerprints that encode secret messages into the spiral points on the prints.
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Even a Few Bots Can Shift Public Opinion in Big Ways
Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump.
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An AI Lie Detector Will Interrogate Travelers at Some E Borders
An artificial intelligence-based lie detector system will be used on international travelers during a six-month pilot program at border crossings in Hungary, Latvia...
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NASA Astronauts Will Get to Use This Extraterrestrial Supercomputer
A standard Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Apollo 4000-series business computer is being used to conduct science experiments on the International Space Station.
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NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system's earliest chapter.
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Researchers Combine Technologies for New Digital Stethoscope
A prototype digital stethoscope for grading heart ailments and heart-pump performance incorporates precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology, and machine...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning
What if you stopped learning after graduation? It sounds stultifying, but that is how most machine-learning systems are trained.
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The World's Strongest MRI Machines Are Pushing Human Imaging to New Limits
On a cold morning in Minneapolis last December, a man walked into a research centre to venture where only pigs had gone before: into the strongest magnetic resonance...
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This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape.
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NATO Military Exercise Will Test Robots, Autonomous Vehicles
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is conducting a month-long military exercise using a variety of new technologies.
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Need to Fix an iPhone or Android Device? You Can Now Break DRM nder New .S. Rules
It is now legal in the U.S. for consumers and repair companies to break an electronic device's digital rights management protections in order to to repair it.
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Computer Theorists Show Path to Verifying that Quantum Beats Classical
There have been parallel efforts to find a way to prove that quantum supremacy has been achieved.
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NIH Grant Funds Development of a Wayfinding App for the Blind
Researchers are using $1.1-million U.S. National Institutes of Health grant to develop a student's system for guiding the blind into an iPhone app.
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New Technology Advances Protection of Critical Systems From Insider-Assisted Attacks
A new covert defense algorithm employs evasive tactics to deceive cyberattackers targeting critical systems from within.
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What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?
For voters around the world, including the millions of Americans who will cast ballots in the midterms up to and on November 6, an election is democracy in action—an...
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