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Team Begins Powering Up Science Instruments
The engineers and scientists working on NASA's Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting their newly arrived Jupiter orbiter ready for operations around...
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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Eu Plans $2b Investment in Cybersecurity Research
The European Union is contributing $500 million to fund research into cybersecurity, and is asking the private sector to contribute an additional $1.5 billion.
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No Need For Supercomputers
Researchers have developed a method for calculating complex quantum-mechanical equations with personal computers that is much faster than using supercomputers.
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Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene
Researchers are determining the differences between human minds and artificial intelligence-based machines by mapping human and AI visual attention.
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A Celebration of Women in Hpc
Recent events held by the Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) network have focused on resolving the lack of gender diversity in HPC.
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
The push by some automakers to make fully autonomous vehicles a commercial reality is being tempered by others arguing against elimination of human driver intervention...
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Mars Canyons Study Adds Clues About Possible Water
Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet's largest...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...
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Putin Signs New Anti-Terror Law in Russia. Edward Snowden Is pset.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed into law a controversial package of counterterrorism measures, including tougher sentences for extremism and...
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How Juno Will Peer Deep Below Jupiter's Roiling Clouds
When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer...
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Obama's Top Scientist Talks Shrinking Budgets, Donald Trump, and His Biggest Regret
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...
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Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...
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Machine Learning Method Differentiates Between Healthy Male, Female Microbiomes
Researchers have used Topological Data Analysis as an unsupervised learning and data exploration tool to identify changes in microbial states.
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Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program Reaches Record Numbers
Girls Who Code has launched its 2016 Summer Immersion Program with a record number of programs reaching 1,560 11th- and 12th-grade girls in cities across the U.S...
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Video Privacy Tool Lets You Select What Others See
Researchers at Duke University have developed software that enables users to specify what others can see when sharing images captured by camera-equipped devices...
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College Students Demonstrate Integrity in Learning and Ignore Cheating Opportunities
A University of California, Riverside study found most college students make a legitimate attempt to answer questions in homework assignments.
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Tackling Intractable Computing Problems
Princeton University researchers used a $10-million U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award to find the sources of intractability.
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