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No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data
Two robotic sailboats trace lawn-mower-style paths across the violent surface of the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska.
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Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments...
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Msu Technology Could Help Keep Elderly Safe in Their Homes
Michigan State University researchers are exploring whether home Wi-Fi systems can preserve the privacy of the elderly while detecting abnormal events in their...
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Keystroke Recognition ses Wi-Fi Signals to Snoop
Researchers have learned how to use off-the-shelf computer gear and a standard Wi-Fi connection to read keystrokes from a person in close proximity.
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3 New Programming Languages: What Their Creators Say
The creators of three new open source languages say they fulfill unique needs.
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Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data
Researchers say they have developed a method to automatically generate complete three-dimensional building models of a given area by using partial images.
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Philae Found!
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?
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What Starlight Teaches S About Space (pretty Much Everything)
In the southern sky, there is a constellation called Centaurus, its arms outstretched and its flanks straddling the famous Southern Cross.
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How Machine Learning Can Help With Voice Disorders
A new diagnostic approach using machine learning could help detect speech disorders exacerbated by vocal misuse.
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Colors From Darkness: Researchers Develop Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing
Aalto University researchers in Finland have demonstrated the suitability of microwave signals in the coding of information for quantum computing.
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Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere.
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How Maggots Are Influencing the Future of Robotics
The European Union-funded MINIMAL project says the learning processes of fruit fly larva (maggots) could have important applications for technology.
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.s. State Department Tackles Gender Gap in STEM Participation
The U.S. Department of State is seeking to address the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
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Poker-Playing AI 'bot' Carries Long-Range Impact
Florida International University professor Sam Ganzfried says computer poker research generates ideas that are starting to have applications in medicine and security...
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Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.
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A Call From Outer Space, or a Cosmic Wrong Number?
It's probably just a piece of cosmic spam, the astrophysical equivalent of butt dialing. But nobody really knows for sure.
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Inferring rban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data
A new computational system can use cellphone location data to infer urban mobility patterns.
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