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Social Media Trends Can Predict Tipping Points in Vaccine Scares
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada found analyzing trends on Twitter and Google helped predict vaccine scares.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp on Reality
As deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies advance, the "Uncanny Valley"--the unease people feel toward realistic computer-generated humans--is beginning...
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People Don't Trust Driverless Cars. Researchers Are Trying to Change That
Industrial and academic researchers are attempting to overcome consumers' distrust of autonomous vehicles.
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How to Find the Truth on Twitter
Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate whether an event reported on Twitter is a likely witness account.
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How the Loss of Net Neutrality Could Change the Internet
The repeal of net neutrality ushers in a new chapter of the internet that could eventually transform the way Americans communicate, shop and consume information...
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Unprecedented Malware Targets Industrial Safety Systems in the Middle East
Since Stuxnet first targeted and destroyed uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran last decade, the cybersecurity world has waited for the next step in that digital...
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Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
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How Implants Powered By Ultrasound Can Help Monitor Health
Researchers have unveiled small implants designed for disease diagnosis and treatment by using ultrasound to safely beam both energy and instructions.
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Estonia, the Digital Republic
Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with the path of the sea, then breaks inland, leaving cars to follow a thin road toward the houses at the water's...
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Higher Education Not Neutral on Net Neutrality
The nature of today's Internet may mean trouble for the very community that birthed it, if network neutrality rules change.
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Nasa's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below...
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Seeing Through Walls of nknown Materials
A new technique exploits a wall's symmetry to see through it using a narrow band of microwave frequencies without any advance knowledge of the material making up...
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Twitter Can Reveal Our Shared Mood
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have found that tweets reflect strong patterns of positive and negative moods over a 24-hour day.
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It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments
The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...
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Berners-Lee, Woz, Cerf: Cancel Flawed Net Neutrality Vote
Internet and technology luminaries, including Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and "Father of the internet" Vint Cerf, have called on...
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Esnet's Petascale Dtn Project Speeds Up Data Transfers Between Leading Hpc Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy runs the Energy Sciences Network that connects three of the world's leading supercomputers. The effort aims to achieve regular disk...
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Criminology, Computer Science Researchers Developing Next-Gen Electronic Monitoring
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are developing an electronic monitoring system that uses smartphones, sensor technology, and GPS tracking...
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Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome Sequence
Today, a teaspoon of spit and a hundred bucks is all you need to get a snapshot of your DNA. But getting the full picture—all 3 billion base pairs of your genome—requires...
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Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? Seti Tunes In to 'oumuamua
Ever since its discovery in mid-October as it passed by Earth already outbound from our solar system, the mysterious object dubbed 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "first...
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