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How Google Is Making Sure Cows Won't Foil Its Self-Driving Cars
Most of us haven't had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we're driving. Still, it's the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating.
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What Are the Colors of Alien Life?
Just before it became the first man-made vessel to leave the solar system, in 1990, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth, some four billion miles away.
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The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.
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Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days.
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Hbo's John Oliver Hits Snowden Hard on Nsa Leaks
Edward Snowden and an unlikely interviewer squared-off on HBO over the leaks that exposed the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance programs.
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Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death
Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city's soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose...
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Large Hadron Collider Restarts
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has kicked off its second run, as protons circulated in the machine after a two-year break.
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Is 'making a Game Out of Learning' Bad For Learning?
In MIT's Education Arcade, classic game consoles line the office corridor, rafters are strung with holiday lights, and inflatable, stuffed and papier-maché creatures...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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Mini Enzyme Moves Gene Editing Closer to the Clinic
A tweak to a technique that edits DNA with pinpoint precision has boosted its ability to correct defective genes in people.
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See How Diseases Spread in These Mesmerizing Graphics
You're an H1N1 influenza virus—swine flu—just hanging out in Hanoi, Vietnam. But now it's time to spread and infect.
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Toolkits For the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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Nasa Releases Tool Enabling Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta
NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our...
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This Air Force Tech Could've Averted the Germanwings Crash
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...
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U.s. Establishes Sanctions Program to Combat Cyberattacks, Cyberspying
President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing the first sanctions program to allow the administration to impose penalties on individuals overseas...
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.
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After Snowden, the Nsa Faces Recruitment Challenge
Daniel Swann is exactly the type of person the National Security Agency would love to have working for it.
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.s. Supreme Court: Gps Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...
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