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In-Ear Eeg Makes ­nobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
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In-Ear Eeg Makes ­nobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility

Two research teams are developing electroencephalogram sensors that fit inside the ear.

Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu
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Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu

Saarland University researchers are developing an automated system for translating between the languages of the European Union.

Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware
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Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware

University of Florida researchers have developed a system they say can thwart ransomware.

Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls
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Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls

The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.

Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-Orbit View
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-Orbit View

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.

Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal
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Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal

European officials approved a new agreement on Tuesday that will allow some of the world’s largest companies, including Google and General Electric, to move digital...

Clouds Get High on Climate Change
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Clouds Get High on Climate Change

Clouds are moving up, up and away. An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s, clouds have shifted towards Earth's poles and cloud tops...

The Code That Took America to the Moon Was Just Published to Github
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The Code That Took America to the Moon Was Just Published to Github

The flight software for the Apollo 11 space program last week was uploaded to the GitHub code-sharing website.

Olcf Expands Data Analytics Capability With Popular Programming Language
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Olcf Expands Data Analytics Capability With Popular Programming Language

Users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are able to use R data analytics software to manage and analyze enormous datasets generated by supercomputers...

Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders
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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders

Competitors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Icehouse Challenge were tasked with creating software for emergency responders.

In Pursuit of Planes That Think For Themselves
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In Pursuit of Planes That Think For Themselves

Just how smart can an airplane be?

How to Stay Anonymous Online
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How to Stay Anonymous Online

Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...

In Memoriam: Rudolf Kalman 1930–2016
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In Memoriam: Rudolf Kalman 1930–2016

The engineer and mathematician was best known for the eponymous Kalman filter.

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas

As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting ­p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting ­p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe

Neural networks are changing the Internet.

If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why

Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...

Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft

Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...

Boston Is Nation's Top Tech-Talent Exporter
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Boston Is Nation's Top Tech-Talent Exporter

The U.S. technology worker population currently totals 4.8 million, according to CBRE's 2016 Scoring Tech Talent report.

Uw, Microsoft Researchers Break Record For Dna Data Storage
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Uw, Microsoft Researchers Break Record For Dna Data Storage

Researchers believe they have set a new world record for the amount of digital data successfully stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.

Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming
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Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming

The European Union-funded SENSEI project accurately anticipated Britain's Brexit decision based on analysis of more than 6 million social media conversations.
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