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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...
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Beijing Subway Swipe Data Betrays Social Class
Beijing is an enormous city, sprawling over an area 10 times larger than Greater London.
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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power se
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal...
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...
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Is Your Toaster a Silent Recruit in a 'thingbot' Army?
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.
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Magic Leap
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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The Hot Yet Little-Known Trend That'll Supercharge AI
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.
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How Hackers Could Attack Hard Drives to Create a Pervasive Backdoor
News that a hacking group within or associated with the National Security Agency compromised the firmware of hard drive controllers from a number of manufacturers...
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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The Future of Electronics--Now in 2d
Ohio State University researchers are developing ways to turn germanium into a potential replacement for silicon in electronics.
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Time Lords: The Clocks That Rule Our World
Time is money—and never was this clearer than at 09:59:59.985 Eastern Time, on 3 June 2013.
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If Software Looks Like a Brain and Acts Like a Brain—will We Treat It Like One?
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.
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The Shape of Things to Come
In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has...
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Star Buzzed Solar System During Human Prehistory
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...
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Comet on 14 February from 8.7 Km
On 14 February 2015, Rosetta swooped over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at a distance of just 6 km. The closest approach took place at 12:41 GMT...
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Smarter Multicore Chips
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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