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Researchers Launch Moon Mission Audio Site
Researchers are using a 2012 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop Explore Apollo, a public website featuring audio from the Apollo moon missions...
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'malware-Free' Attacks Mount in Big Breaches, Crowdstrike Finds
Despite the rise of massive crypto-ransomware attacks, an even more troubling trend emerged in data gathered by the security firm CrowdStrike this past year and...
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'grinch Bots' Attempt to Steal Christmas By Driving p Toy Prices
Online fraudsters are frustrating Christmas shoppers by using software bots to buy up the most popular toys to resell at inflated prices at third-party websites...
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Virtual Reality sers Must Learn to se What They See
A new study has found virtual reality users need training to effectively perceive and use virtual imagery.
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Tech Is Taking Over Our Lives, and Our 401(k) Accounts
As technology takes over more of people's daily lives, it's also taking over ever-bigger chunks of their retirement accounts.
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Dubious Claim of Week: Air Force's 'emp Missile' Could Disable N. Korean Icbms
On Monday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report claiming that White House officials had discussed using an experimental weapon to disrupt or disable a North Korean...
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Found: Most Distant Black Hole
Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole. This matter-eating beast is 800 million times the mass...
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Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement
Online students who use innovative robots feel more engaged and connected to the instructor and students in the classroom.
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Phones Vulnerable to Location Tracking Even When Gps Services Off
PinMe is an application that can pinpoint and monitor people via their smartphones even when global-positioning system data access is deactivated.
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Will Tech Firms Challenge China's 'open' Internet?
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to which they want to talk about it.
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Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India?
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...
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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions
By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages...
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China's A.i. Advances Help Its Tech Industry, and State Security
During President Trump's visit to Beijing, he appeared on screen for a special address at a tech conference.
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Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says.
The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition...
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Voyager 1 Fires p Thrusters After 37 Years
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...
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Supercomputing Poised For a Massive Speed Boost
At the end of July, workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began filling up a cavernous room with the makings of a computational behemoth: row...
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ltrasound Could Offer Noninvasive Treatment For Parkinson's and Depression
A macaque monkey sat in front of a computer. A yellow square—the target—appeared in the periphery on the left side of the screen. After a few seconds delay, a second...
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Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and The australian outback
Even in early winter, the sun is harsh in Western Australia's Murchison shire.
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