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History-Making Philae Lander Faces 'eternal Hibernation' on Comet
Exactly 15 months after it completed a seemingly impossible journey to land on the surface of a comet, the Philae lander now faces "eternal hibernation," as officials...
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World nemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...
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Particles in Love: Quantum Mechanics Explored in New Study
Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light.
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Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
Just over a billion years ago, many millions of galaxies from here, a pair of black holes collided.
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How Google Searches Pretty Much Nailed the New Hampshire Primary
Google's ability to look into the future of political contests just notched another win: New Hampshire.
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Our Hidden Neandertal Dna May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression
Depressed? Your inner Neandertal may be to blame.
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Einstein's Gravitational Waves Found at Last
One hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, scientists have finally spotted these elusive ripples in space-time.
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New Report Contends Mandatory Crypto Backdoors Would Be Futile
An estimated 63 percent of the encryption products available today are developed outside US borders, according to a new report that takes a firm stance against...
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The Chips Are Down For Moore's Law
Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore's law, the principle...
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Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
Huddled in a coffee shop one drizzly Seattle morning six years ago, the astrobiologist Shawn Domagal-Goldman stared blankly at his laptop screen, paralyzed.
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S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
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Spatial Technology Opens a Window Into History
The Strabo software developed at the University of Southern California reads scanned maps and automatically identifies historical locations.
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New Software Can Actually Edit Actors' Facial Expressions
FaceDirector software from Disney Research and the University of Surrey can blend images from multiple takes, making it possible to edit emotions on actors' faces...
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Mind-Reading Tech Helps Beginners Quickly Learn to Play Bach
Every potential virtuoso needs a mentor. It just so happens that this one is a computer.
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3D-Printed Display Lets Blind People Explore Images By Touch
Blind and partially sighted people often use tactile displays to interact with computers.
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Fbi Director Says Investigators nable to nlock San Bernardino Shooter's Phone Content
FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday that federal investigators have still been unable to access the contents of a cellphone belonging to one of the killers...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).
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Study: Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers
A study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, shows, in detail, the reason why...
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New Ways Into the Brain's 'music Room'
Whether to enliven a commute, relax in the evening or drown out the buzz of a neighbor's recreational drone, Americans listen to music nearly four hours a day.
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