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Obama Announces Computer-Science-For-All Initiative
The White House on Tuesday announced a slate of initiatives to advance education in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
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Firefighters' Positioning System May Be sed to Monitor Walking Difficulty For Elderly
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have fine-tuned a positioning system used in fire rescue operations to collect data on people's foot movements...
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A Flexible Camera: A Radically Different Approach to Imaging
Columbia University researchers have developed a sheet camera that can be wrapped around objects to capture images that cannot be taken with conventional cameras...
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Autonomous Vehicles Cannot Be Test-Driven Enough Miles to Demonstrate Their Safety
A new study finds autonomous vehicles would have to drive at least hundreds of millions of miles to generate enough data to clearly demonstrate their safety.
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Why a Chip That's Bad at Math Can Help Computers Tackle Harder Problems
Your math teacher lied to you. Sometimes getting your sums wrong is agood thing.
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A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working
Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy...
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Pair Programming Is Still Vibrant
The agile methodology has not grown quickly, but still has its adherents.
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'this Is the Irs Regarding Your Tax Filings,' Says Trio of Overseas Robocallers
As if political campaigns, shady telemarketers hawking home security systems, and the rest of the usual suspects aren't generating enough automated phone calls,...
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Nasa Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth
Using satellite data on how water moves around Earth, NASA scientists have solved two mysteries about wobbles in the planet's rotation—one new and one more than...
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Moore's Law's Ultraviolet Savior Is Finally Ready
It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...
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Computer Scientists Present New Method to Reconstruct Signaling Pathways
Researchers have developed a new computational algorithm that reconstructs signaling pathways from a background network of molecular interactions.
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Researchers se Light and Sound Waves to Control Electron States
University of Oregon researchers have combined light and sound to control electron states in an atom-like system.
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Ames Laboratory Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
Researchers say they have discovered a topological metal that could be used in futuristic energy-efficient computers with higher processor speeds and data storage...
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Experiencing nderwater Worlds, Virtually
Dhruv Jain led the creation of a scuba-diving simulator as part of his Amphibian virtual reality project.
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Arms Control Groups rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
Two international arms control groups on Monday issued a report that called for maintaining human control over a new generation of weapons that are increasingly...
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Why Robots Need to Be Able to Say 'no'
Robots' blind obedience to human instructions can lead to harmful results and unwanted outcomes.
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First Paralysed Person to Be 'reanimated' Offers Neuroscience Insights
A quadriplegic man who has become the first person to be implanted with technology that sends signals from the brain to muscles—allowing him to regain some movement...
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Silicon Valley Targets Smart Guns
In the 2012 movie Skyfall, James Bond brandishes his trusty sidearm, but with a high-tech twist: There's a sensor in the grip that reads palm prints so only he...
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Senators' Encryption Measure Adds New Fuel to Apple-Fbi Debate
Technology and Internet companies would have to provide government agencies with access to data when served with a court order under long-awaited draft legislation...
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