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Virtual Flashlight Reveals Secrets of Ancient Artefacts
The Revealing Flashlight projects computer-generated models onto real objects, filling in missing details wherever the spotlight lands.
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Make Robots seful By Teaching Them to Talk Like S
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him.
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
New software can learn to identify rare medical conditions by analyzing a face in a digital photograph.
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How Isis Is Winning the Online War For Iraq
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and akey border crossing between Iraq and Jordan—it lost a key...
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Hackers Reverse-Engineer Nsa's Leaked Bugging Devices
Security researchers have reverse-engineered some of the wireless spying devices used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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Pluto-Bound Craft Seeks Manhattan-Sized Lump of Ice
Desirable destinations at the fringes of the solar system can be hard to find.
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment.
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Quantum Positioning System Steps In When Gps Fails
In 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world.
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Sentient Robots? Not Possible If You Do the Maths
So long, robot pals—and robot overlords.
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Cyborg Angst: 5 Ways Computers Will Perplex S in 2039
Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers.
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Watson in Your Pocket: Supercomputer Gets Own Apps
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
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When the Internet Dies, Meet the Meshnet That Survives
A nonprofit recently staged a small-scale drill mimicking the outages that affected New York after Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012.
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Virtual Earth Plays Out Fate of Life on the Planet
We can simulate the climate and we can even simulate babies. Now, we can simulate life on Earth, too—the vast and complex interactions of the living organisms on...
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Wikipedia Searches and Sick Tweets Predict Flu Cases
A new algorithm mines data from Wikipedia to track flu cases across the United States.
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Criminal Gang Connections Mapped via Phone Metadata
Software has been used to tap metadata from phones to map links between a criminal network in Sicily.
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Atomic Time Lord to Battle Sneaky High-Speed Trades
Welcome to the room where time lives. I am standing in a space bristling with atomic clocks at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, U.K., which generates...
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Dna Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
Researchers have introduced DNA nanobots that can dispense drugs into living cockroaches.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Hot on the Trail of Consciousness in Brain and Machine
"Nowhere in science have so many devoted so much to create so little consensus," writes physicist, author, and TV presenter Michio Kaku of consciousness research...
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