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Nasa Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt
NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored...
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New Device Could Greatly Improve Speech and Image Recognition
University of California, Riverside researchers have achieved a breakthrough which they say could improve speech- and image-recognition hardware.
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Electronic Security Tag For Protecting Valuable Shipments
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland say they have developed an electronic security tag that can be used to protect valuable shipments.
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Graphene Holds Key to Unlocking Creation of Wearable Electronic Devices
Researchers have developed a technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibers commonly associated with the textile industry.
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7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What the Next Decade Will Bring
The Huffington Post recently queried seven futurists about what the next decade of science and technology might hold.
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A Pioneering Facial Recognition Cane For the Blind
Students at Birmingham City University have developed a smart cane that uses facial recognition technology to enable the visually impaired to identify friends and...
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Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway.
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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How Daimler Built the World's First Self-Driving Semi
Christian Urban waves his hands to make a point, then looks at his nails and cracks wise about needing a manicure.
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Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right direction...
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Man Bests Machine in Two-Week Poker Tourney at Rivers Casino
Four professional poker players beat a poker program in the recently concluded Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence poker tournament.
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California Launches Digital Democracy Project
California officials have launched Digital Democracy, an online and interactive platform aimed at improving transparency in state government.
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Google's Self-Driving Cars of Tomorrow Face the Mean Streets of Today
Google says its self-driving cars will be good for road safety because they can pay better attention to the road than humans do.
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Wearable Gadgets Portend Vast Health, Research, and Privacy Consequences
New devices can provide the average person with unprecedented access to quantifiable information about their bodies.
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Even Robots Now Have Their Own Virtual World
In a month's time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a fairground park in Pomona, California.
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Nasa Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts For Further Study
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies...
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Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...
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