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How Quantum Sensing Is Changing the Way We See the World
Imagine a world where you can find out exactly what lies under your feet, get advanced warning of volcanic eruptions, look around corners or into rooms, and detect...
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The Key to Cracking Long-Dead Languages
Broken and scorched black by fire, the dense, wedge-shaped marks etched into the ancient clay tablets are only just visible under the soft light at the British...
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Hologram Phone Calls; Sci-Fi or Serious Possibility?
High-speed 5G networks could lead to big changes in how we use our mobile phones, allowing us to enjoy virtual reality on-the-go, interactive live broadcasts, and...
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Wi-Fi Could Be sed to Detect Weapons and Bombs
Wireless signals can penetrate bags to measure the dimensions of metal objects or estimate the volume of liquids, researchers claim.
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The Cameras that Know If You're Happy, or a Threat
Facial recognition tech has been around for decades, but it has been progressing in leaps and bounds in recent years due to advances in computing vision and artificial...
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'We Can Build a Real Time Machine'
Travelling in time might sound like a flight of fancy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.
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Are You Scared Yet? Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI
Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world.
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How 'Ninja Polymers' Are Fighting Killer Superbugs
In Ridley Scott's seminal blockbuster Blade Runner, humanity has harnessed bio-engineering to create a race of replicants that look, act and sound human—but are...
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The Secret Science That Rules Crowds
Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred in 2017 include incidents in an Angolan...
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Quantum Computers 'One Step Closer'
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon.
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How to Control a Machine sing Your Mind
Bill Kochevar's life was changed, seemingly irrevocably, when he was paralysed from the shoulders down following a cycling accident nearly a decade ago.
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The (almost) Complete History of 'fake News'
In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur.
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Psychedelic Toasters Fool Image Recognition Tech
Researchers say they have created psychedelic stickers that can fool image-recognition software into seeing objects that do not exist.
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Will Tech Firms Challenge China's 'open' Internet?
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to which they want to talk about it.
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How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?
Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today.
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Treating Cancer, Stopping Violence . . . How AI Protects US
For some, the spread of artificial intelligence and robotics poses a threat to our privacy, our jobs – even our safety, as more and more tasks are handed over to...
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The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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Deception Tech Helps to Thwart Hackers' Attacks
In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they...
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The Search For the Solar System's Most Likely Place For Life
Chris McKay has fallen out of love with Mars. The red, dusty, corroded world no longer holds the allure it once did.
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