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Engineering Tour de Force Births Programmable Optical Quantum Computer
There comes a moment in every physicist's life when they think the unthinkable: I wish I were an engineer. I suspect this thought crossed the minds of the 14-odd...
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Researchers Find Way to Spy on Remote Screens, through the Webcam Mic
Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens?
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This Military Tech Could Finally Help Self-Driving Cars Master Snow
The research conducted at the country's National Laboratories is usually highly classified and specifically aimed at solving national security problems. But sometimes...
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Neural Network Implemented with Light Instead of Electrons
Neural networks have a reputation for being computationally expensive. But only the training portion of things really stresses most computer hardware, since it...
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How They Did It (and Will Likely Try Again): GR Hackers vs. S Elections
In a press briefing just two weeks ago, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned...
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten p AI in Space
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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Seafloor Fiber Optic Cables Can Work Like Seismometers
There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones.
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Why Emergency Braking Systems Sometimes Hit Parked Cars and Lane Dividers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...
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Frozen Pluto Has Wind-Blown Dunes Made of Methane Sand
Part of the wonder of seeing new worlds is the radical difference from the planet you know.
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NASA Asks Scientists How Its Lander Should Look for Life on Europa
NASA is in various stages of planning two multi-billion dollar missions to Jupiter's intriguing, ice-covered moon of Europa.
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Five New Ancient Genomes Tell s About Neanderthal Tribes
Mezmaiskaya Cave offered shelter to Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years. The cave, located near Russia's border with Georgia, preserved Neanderthal remains...
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How Did Life Begin? It's Chemistry 101, but in Space
How did life start? There may not be a bigger question.
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AI Trained to Spot Heart Disease Risks sing Retina Scan
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
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Inching Closer to a DNA-Based File System
When it comes to data storage, efforts to get faster access grab most of the attention. But long-term archiving of data is equally important, and it generally requires...
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Oxygen Ions May Be an Easy-to-Track Sign of Life on Exoplanets
The search for extraterrestrial life is fairly synonymous with the search for life as we know it.
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Vulnerable Industrial Controls Directly Connected to Internet? Why Not?
Siemens issued an update to a year-old product vulnerability warning for its SIMATIC S7-300 and S7-400 families of programmable logic controllers (PLCs)—industrial...
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Major Payment Company: 'fewer and Fewer se Cases' For Bitcoin Payments
Stripe is one of the most popular ways for small online organizations to accept credit card payments. And in 2014 it became one of the first major payment processors...
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