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'we All Love the Tomahawk:' A Brief History of .s.'s Favorite Robotic Killer
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...
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Single Atom Feels the Quantum Heat
Thermal transport—the way heat is carried away from a processor, for instance—is very familiar to us.
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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We Finally Have a Computer that Can Survive the Surface of Venus
Venus is one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system.
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Information Paradox and Black Holes in Plasmas
Black holes are a problem for physics, and the physics community has never fully warmed to the idea of them.
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Google Brain Super-Resolution Image Tech Makes 'zoom, Enhance!' Real
Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. Google's software, in short, basically means thetrope...
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In Not-Too-Distant Future, Brain Hackers Could Steal Your Deepest Secrets
In the beginning, people hacked phones.
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.s. Intelligence Seeks a niversal Translator For Text Search in Any Language
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language program aims to give researchers...
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Back to the Future: Silicon May Work For Quantum Computing
Although I write a lot about quantum computing, I've not really paid much attention to performing quantum computations with silicon-based qubits. Luckily Stephanie...
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Dod Successfully Tests Terrifying Swarm of 104 Micro-Drones
The Department of Defense has released video of a test of swarming drones conducted in the skies over the US Navy's test range at Naval Air Weapons Station China...
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Nasa Chooses Two Asteroid Missions Instead of a Venus Return
For the planetary science community, the day when NASA makes the final call on new Solar System exploration missions always feels bittersweet.
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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The Army's Looking Into Putting Bacteria Into Its Electronics
If you're not familiar with the terms "synthetic biology" or "biohybrid systems," you may want to add them to your vocabulary.
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Google Deepmind Could Invent the Next Generation of AI By Playing Starcraft 2
The announcement at BlizzCon 2016 that met with the most muted response was arguably the most revolutionary.
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Japan Plans Supercomputer to Leap Into Technology Future
Japan plans to build the world's fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country's manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop...
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Internet-Based and Open Source: How E-Voting Works Around the Globe
Although electronic voting in various forms has become more prevalent outside the U.S., its primary difficulties include its inability to verify source code and...
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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