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Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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Mathematicians Tame Turbulence in Flattened Fluids
Turbulence, the splintering of smooth streams of fluid into chaotic vortices, doesn't just make for bumpy plane rides. It also throws a wrench into the very mathematics...
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A Refined Magnetic Sense
An international team has demonstrated that algorithms and hardware developed for quantum computation can be applied to quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields...
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Implanting Diamonds With Flaws to Provide Key Technology for Quantum Communications
Researchers have successfully stored and transmitted quantum bits using a diamond in which two carbon atoms had been replaced with one silicon atom.
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Simulations Break Down Potential Impact of a Major Quake by Building Location, Size
Two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories are using supercomputers to simulate the impact of a large-magnitude earthquake with unprecedented precision...
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SpaceX Is Flying an Artificially Intelligent Robot Named CIMON to the International Space Station
An artificially intelligent robot was launched to the International Space Station last week to assist with scientific experiments.
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Don't Just Lecture Robots; Make Them Learn
The robot apocalypse is nigh. Boston Dynamics' robots are doing backflips and opening doors for their friends. Oh, and these 7-foot-long robot arms can lift 500...
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New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation
A new algorithm could dramatically slash the time it can take computers to recommend movies or route taxis.
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A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
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Chinese Scientists Set New Quantum Entanglement Record
Researchers in China have set a world record for entanglement of 18 quantum bits, keeping China ahead in the international competition to create a functioning quantum...
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Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets...
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
There was a time when biochemists had a lot in common with sculptors.
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Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'
A recent study by Vanderbilt University and Ford Motor researchers showed that adaptive cruise control systems can stop "phantom traffic jams" by incrementally...
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Big Data Analytics for Dummies
A big-data analytics platform developed under the EU-funded Trustworthy Model-Aware Analytics Data Platform project should automatically manage all major challenges...
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In Search of New Rules to Protect Other Worlds From Earth's Cooties
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...
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Dawn's Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other...
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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