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Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA's TESS Keeps Counting More
NASA's new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.
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Milky Way to Face a One-Two Punch of Galaxy Collisions
If our knowledge of galaxy structures was limited to the Milky Way, we'd get a lot of things wrong. The Milky Way, it turns out, is unusual.
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Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny
New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China's access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as...
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B-Secur HeartKey Tech nlocks Your Car with nique Rhythm of Your Heartbeat
B-Secur's HeartKey technology allows users to unlock and start their cars via the unique beating pattern of their heart.
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The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre
Throughout 2018, researchers found exploitable weaknesses related to "speculative execution" vulnerabilities.
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The S and China Are in a Quantum Arms Race that Will Transform Warfare
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...
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Wireless 'Pacemaker for the Brain' Could Be New Standard Treatment for Neurological Disorders
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine...
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New Augmented Reality Technology Could Help Firefighters Save Lives
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur's augmented reality solution could make firefighters more effective in low-visibility situations.
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Beyond CMOS Lies Hope
Seeking a successor to complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology.
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Hybrid Qubits Solve Key Hurdle to Quantum Computing
An international team of researchers has built a hybrid device from two different types of quantum bits to facilitate rapid initialization and readout.
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China Becomes First Nation to Land on the Moon's Far Side
A Chinese probe has made a historic touch-down on the far side of the Moon, according to the country's state-run media. It is the first time a probe has visited...
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission Releases Snowman-like Picture of ltima Thule
Ultima Thule, an icy world 4 billion miles from the sun, looks like a big snowman.
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Wake-p Timer Saves Power for IoT Sensors
A new "battery-less" wake-up timer substantially lowers the power consumption of silicon chips for Internet of Things sensor nodes.
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Toyota Wants to Put a Robot Friend in Every Home
Toyota envisions robots becoming commonplace in homes as companions to senior citizens.
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Pluto Explorer shering in New Year at More Distant World
The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world.
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The German Sub Sank 76 Years Ago. Now Its Story Is Being Revealed in Eerie Fluorescent Detail.
The U-boat seems to loom out of the blackness, careening to starboard, as if to avoid a collision.
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As Air Taxis Arrive, Software Issues Arise
Urban 'flying car' technology is almost here, but with proponents haunted by a 1977 helicopter crash, getting safety right is the top priority.
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Growing Bio-Inspired Shapes With Hundreds of Tiny Robots
Researchers have found that hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes without an underlying master plan.
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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