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Nasa Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.
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Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying "Marathon Valley," a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations...
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Astronomers Observe Supernova and Find They're Watching Reruns
It's "Groundhog Day" in the cosmos.
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A Robot That Collapses nder Pressure (in a Good Way)
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
John is in the playground. Bob is in the office. Where is John?
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Demand For Linux Skills Growing Faster Than Talent Pool: Report
There is still a shortage of qualified Linux professionals, according to the Linux Foundation's 2015 Linux Jobs report.
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New Technology Could Cut Costs of Night Vision, Thermal Imaging
Researchers say they have developed semiconductor technology that could make night vision and thermal imaging affordable for everyday use.
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Black Phosphorus Is New 'wonder Material' For Improving Optical Communication
Researchers have demonstrated high-speed data communication on nanoscale optical circuits using a 20-atom-thick film of black phosphorus.
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Mozilla Tackles Parallel Javascript
Mozilla wants to bring parallelism to JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage hardware capabilities.
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Google, Stanford Use Machine Learning on 37.8m Data Points For Drug Discovery
Researchers at Stanford University and Google have used machine-learning techniques to find effective drug treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesdayin the journal Nature that they had made a significant advance that...
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Oxford Celebrates 200th Birthday of Ada Lovelace
This year, the University of Oxford will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of computer visionary Ada Lovelace.
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Rosetta Catches Its Own Shadow
The highest resolution image yet taken of Comet 67P by the Rosetta satellite has just been released.
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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'freak' Flaw Undermines Security For Apple and Google Users, Researchers Discover
Companies and government agencies are scrambling to correct a major security flaw revealed this week.
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New App Monitors Net Neutrality in Mobile Networks
Northeastern University researchers have developed an app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks.
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Why Computers Still Struggle to Tell the Time
Despite the extreme precision of most modern computer systems, software engineer George Neville-Neil says it remains difficult for them to accurately tell time. ...
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Panoramas for Your Tablet
Panoramic video could soon pop up on the screens of smart TVs, smartphones, and tablets.
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