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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach

A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...

Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings

From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.

Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters

Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...

Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech
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Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech

Researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. have developed LipNet, a new program they say is more accurate at reading lips than human experts.

Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth
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Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth

Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying...

Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk

For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...

Paas Enables Greater Customization
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Paas Enables Greater Customization

Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.

There's Money in Your Wearable Fitness Tracker
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There's Money in Your Wearable Fitness Tracker

The health information collected by wearable fitness trackers may one day carry monetary value, according to a recent study.

Machines May Never Master the Distinctly Human Elements of Language
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Machines May Never Master the Distinctly Human Elements of Language

Artificial intelligence might never be able to completely understand human language.

Slac & Berkeley Researchers Prepare For Exascale
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Slac & Berkeley Researchers Prepare For Exascale

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will work to develop applications for exascale supercomputers that can the handle massive datasets produced by x-ray lasers...

The Real-Time Technicolour Living Brain
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The Real-Time Technicolour Living Brain

Rosa Cossart thinks she knows what a memory looks like.

Why You Don't Have Much Neanderthal Dna in Your Genome
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Why You Don't Have Much Neanderthal Dna in Your Genome

Neanderthals and modern humans diverged from a common ancestor about half a million years ago.

Brown Researchers Developing New Interactive Sleep App
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Brown Researchers Developing New Interactive Sleep App

Brown University researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sleep analytics to generate personalized sleep recommendations.

China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition
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China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition

China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies' technology and hamstring their operations...

Watching Summer Clouds on Titan
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Watching Summer Clouds on Titan

NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29­­­­ and 30, 2016.

Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
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Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target

The Internet of Things could prove highly vulnerable to cyberattackers, according to a new study.

Make America Tweet Again
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Make America Tweet Again

Software developed by a team of researchers at the University of Utah can identify an individual's feelings toward current events by analyzing political tweets....

Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality

You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.

Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.

Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing

RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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