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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Eu Developing Robot Badgers For nderground Excavation
The European Union is underwriting the roBot for Autonomous unDerGround trenchless opERations, mapping, and navigation (BADGER) project.
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Lhc Physicists nveil a Charming New Particle
Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new kind of heavy particle, they announced...
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
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Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.
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c Santa Cruz Launches New Data Science Research Center
The University of California, Santa Cruz has launched a new data science research center that provides a platform for collaboration between industry and academia...
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Darpa's Ex-Leader's Speculative Dream of Mind-Melding Empathy
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...
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Juno Shatters Scientists' Jupiter Theories in Just 365 Days
Last July 4th, NASA's Juno spacecraft slowed its record breaking pace just enough to get caught in the pull of Jupiter's gravity.
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How Building Baseline Video Analytics via Crowdsourcing Can Lead to Safer Streets
The city of Bellevue, WA, is collaborating with Microsoft, the University of Washington, and the Institute of Transportation Engineers on the Video Analytics Towards...
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Single-Cell Sequencing Made Simple
Single-cell biology is a hot topic these days. And at the cutting edge of the field is single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq).
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The Hidden Signs that Can Reveal a Fake Photo
Take a look at the photograph below; it's just an ordinary picture of two people outside a building, right? One of them appears to be handing something to the other...
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Sleuthing For Seismic Answers in the Sooner State
Oklahomans are no strangers to Mother Nature's whims.
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An Algorithm Helps Protect Mars Curiosity's Wheels
There are no mechanics on Mars, so the next best thing for NASA's Curiosity rover is careful driving.
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New Natural Selection: How Scientists Are Altering Dna to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life
Before human beings wrote books or did math or composed music, we made leather.
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That Ball Was Hit a Country Mile, or 495 Feet If You're Into Hard Data
Spoiler alert: If you wish to continue enjoying gargantuan home runs in the future with unspoiled pleasure, free of all polynomial equations, read no further. If...
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sing Neural Nets to Snag Malware Before It Strikes
A $450,000 grant will support the development of an artificial intelligence system that can detect software bugs and security attacks in computer systems before...
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How Quantum Trickery Can Scramble Cause and Effect
Albert Einstein is heading out for his daily stroll and has to pass through two doorways.
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nder Pressure, Western Tech Firms Bow to Russian Demands to Share Cyber Secrets
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time...
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