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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Tastes Scooped, Sieved Sand
At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on Mars.
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...
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British Voice Encryption Protocol Has Massive Weakness, Researcher Says
A researcher charges the protocol created by a U.K. governmental group to encrypt voice calls has a weakness built into it by design that could enable mass surveillance...
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How an AI Algorithm Learned to Write Political Speeches
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence machine that learned how to write political speeches that are very similar to real speeches.
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Japan Road Tests Self-Driving Cars to Keep Aging Motorists Mobile
Japan's automakers aim to meet the challenge of aging drivers with few transportation options by testing self-driving vehicles on roads.
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.s. Military Wants to Create Cyborg Soldiers
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to create a chip to implant in a soldier's brain to connect it directly to computers.
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This Smartphone Technology 3d Maps Your Meal and Counts Its Calories
NutriRay3D is a new laser-mapping technology/smartphone app that lets users point a smartphone at food and get an accurate count of its total calories and nutrition...
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Crispr Goes Commercial
Within just three years since the discovery of its gene-editing potential, the new technique Crispr has become the hottest, and most controversial, development...
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Here Come the Robots: Davos Bosses Brace For Big Technology Shocks
Implantable mobile phones. 3D-printed organs for transplant. Clothes and reading-glasses connected to the Internet.
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Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
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Can Augmented Reality Make Remote Communication Feel More Intimate?
Nothing beats talking to another person face-to-face, but a group of researchers are considering whether a life-size projection of a person that appears to be sitting...
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Message on a Bottle: A Personalized Information Technology
A spirits company equips its bottles with customizable LED message bands.
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
Researchers report they can control the phase and electrical properties of a thin-film material by applying a small voltage.
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Intelligent Electronics to Become Durable, Flexible and Functional Through New Technology
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland developed the roll-to-roll overmolding manufacturing process now being used by the Printed Into Products 2 project. ...
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Machine Learning Helps Discover the Most Luminous Supernova in History
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers developed machine-learning technology that played a key role in the discovery of supernova ASASSN-15lh.
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German niversity Reports Severe Software Vulnerabilities p in 2015
Fewer software security vulnerabilities were reported worldwide in 2015 than in 2014, but the number of published vulnerabilities with a high level of severity...
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Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...
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Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide
A new DARPA program aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human...
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