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The Computers of Our Wildest Dreams
One of the first electronic, programmable computers in the world is remembered today mostly by its nickname: Colossus.
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Stuck on You: Research Shows Fingerprint Accuracy Stays the Same Over Time
New research by Michigan State University professor Anil Jain has proven one's fingerprint pattern is persistent over time.
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Comet Sinkholes Generate Jets
A number of the dust jets emerging from Rosetta's comet can be traced back to active pits that were likely formed by a sudden collapse of the surface.
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Don't Fear Falling Into a Black Hole–you May Live On as a Hologram
In the movie Interstellar, the main character Cooper escapes from a black hole in time to see his daughter Murph in her final days.
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The Future of Car Keys? Smartphone Apps, Maybe
It' not fun getting into a car when the interior is 130 degrees, but that's a typical problem during the summer for those who live in a city like Phoenix, where...
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What Washington Really Knows About the Internet of Things
President Barack Obama wears a FitBit monitor on his wrist to count his steps and calories, and has waxed poetic about the power of wearable technology to "give...
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Nasa Explains Why June 30 Will Get Extra Second
The day will officially be a bit longer than usual on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, because an extra second, or "leap" second, will be added.
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Computers Read the Fossil Record
For a field whose raison d'être is to chronicle the deep past, palaeontology is remarkably forward-looking when it comes to organizing its data.
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The Computer Chip That Never Forgets
In 1945, mathematician John von Neumann wrote down a very simple recipe for a computer.
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.
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Warrantless Phone Tapping, Email Spying Inching to Supreme Court Review
In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications—a project...
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June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute
We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...
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Watch: Black Hole Sim Whips Dark Matter Into a Frenzy
Dark matter is to astrophysicists what sex is to kids in junior high school: Everybody is really interested, but nobody really knows what it looks like.
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Automatic Bug Repair
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...
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A Computer's Heat Could Divulge Top Secrets
The most secure computers in the world can't "Google" a thing—they are disconnected from the Internet and all other networks.
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
Some 4.7 billion kilometres from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a historic rendezvous with Pluto. To achieve this, it will need to hit a very...
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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Wozniak Talks: Self-Driving Cars, Apple Watch, and How AI Will Benefit Humanity
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he envisions artificial intelligence eventually controlling the world for the betterment of humanity.
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Storing Digital Data For Eternity
Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of...
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