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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...
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An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw, and Erase, Computing Circuits
For the physics researcher Andrew L. Yeats, a light-bulb moment led to an important new insight.
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Behind the European Privacy Ruling That's Confounding Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, when Max Schrems won a landmark privacy case in the European Court of Justice, Edward Snowden told him on Twitter that he had "changed the world for...
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Researchers Say They've Recreated Part of a Rat Brain Digitally
Researchers from institutions around the world disclosed on Thursday the successful digital reconstruction of a section of a rat brain.
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Researchers Say They've Recreated Part of a Rat Brain Digitally
Building on years of research, 82 researchers from institutions around the world reported on Thursday that they have built a reconstruction of a section of rat...
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot nder the Hood
Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...
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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
It looked like a child's playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall.
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Software Is Smart Enough For Sat, but Still Far From Intelligent
An artificial intelligence software program capable of seeing and reading has for the first time answered geometry questions from the SAT at the level of an average...
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.s. and China Seek Arms Deal For Cyberspace
The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will...
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China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From .s. Tech Firms
The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly...
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it.
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Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.s. Over Data Access
In an investigation involving guns and drugs, the Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages...
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China Flexes Tech Muscles Before a State Visit
As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for his first state visit to the United States this month, Washington has warned that it could hit Chinese companies with...
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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere have met with European officials about proposals to regulate...
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In a Data-Driven N.f.l., the Pings May Soon Outstrip the X's and O's
When 80,000 fans pack MetLife Stadium each time the Giants and the Jets play this season, they are unlikely to notice the 22 new radio receivers placed discreetly...
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Atlas, a Humanoid Robot, Takes a Walk in the Woods
Scientists trying to build a better robot are encouraged by the latest steps, however tentative, of a humanoid named Atlas.
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