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Seeing the Brain's Electrical Activity
Researchers say they have developed a light-sensitive protein that can indicate how much voltage a particular nerve cell is experiencing.
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Microsoft's Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications For Data
Five years ago, US law enforcement served Microsoft a search warrant for emails as part of a US drug trafficking investigation. In response, Microsoft handed over...
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Apple Moves to Store iCloud Keys in China, Raising Human Rights Fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities...
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Forecasts of Genetic Fate Just Got a Lot More Accurate
When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...
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Seven Ways Mars InSight is Different
NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force...
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Machine Learning With Limited Data
Researchers have developed a neural network system that requires fewer parameters and training images when working toward image-recognition technology.
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Making Data Storage Personal With #MemoriesInDNA
Researchers at the University of Washington have teamed with Microsoft and Twist Bioscience to encode 10,000 digital images into DNA.
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AI Trained to Spot Heart Disease Risks sing Retina Scan
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
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How ProPublica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog
The nonprofit is fighting fire with fire, developing algorithms and bots that hold Facebook and Amazon accountable.
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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County—a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state—asked David A. Eckhardt, a computer science...
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Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers
Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.
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Serious Quantum Computers Are Finally Here. What Are We Going to Do with Them?
Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This...
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Scientists Pave the Way for Resilient Robot Swarms
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. say they are developing fault-tolerant robotic swarms using bio-inspired algorithms and machine learning...
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Deep Learning for Biology
Four years ago, scientists from Google showed up on neuroscientist Steve Finkbeiner's doorstep.
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New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the...
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Twitter Bars Tactics sed by 'Bots' to Spread False Stories
Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and...
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New Algorithm Can Pinpoint Mutations Favored by Natural Selection in Large Sections of the Human Genome
A new algorithm can identify mutations in the human genome favored by natural selection.
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Programming a DNA Clock
Nature is a master at constructing biological machines and circuits, including the ones that maintain the body's internal clock, copy genes or help cells move. ...
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Inching Closer to a DNA-Based File System
When it comes to data storage, efforts to get faster access grab most of the attention. But long-term archiving of data is equally important, and it generally requires...
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