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How the Open Compute Project's Telco Project Could Transform the Iot, Driverless Cars
The Open Compute Project recently announced the Telco Project, which is focused on data center technologies for telecommunications companies.
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How Apple Will Fight the Doj in Iphone Backdoor Crypto Case
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.
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Q&a: A Look at the Apple vs Justice Dept. Court Fight
A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI break into a work-issued iPhone used by a gunman in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
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Eye-Opening Optical Research Projects That Could Supercharge the Internet
Several research teams around the world are investigating optical technologies that have the potential to make networks--and the Internet--faster and more efficient...
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Tim Cook Opposes Order For Apple to nlock Iphone, Setting p Showdown
Apple said on Wednesday that it would oppose and challenge a federal court order to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed...
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Creating a Computer Voice That People Like
When computers speak, how human should they sound?
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The Best AI Still Flunks 8th Grade Science
In 2012, IBM Watson went to medical school. So said The New York Times, announcing that the tech giant’s artificially intelligent question-and-answer machine had...
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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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Drones Learn to Search Forest Trails For Lost People
Researchers have developed software that enables drones to autonomously detect and follow forest paths.
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Virtual Reality Can Significantly Reduce Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Just a Month By Turning Sufferers Into Avatars
University College London researchers have developed a virtual-reality system they say could help reduce the symptoms of depression.
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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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Study Finds That Anti-Crypto Laws Won't Work on an International Stage
A recent study concluded local regulations to restrict encryption technology would have no effect, considering the technology's international nature.
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Stanford Engineers' 'law, Order & Algorithms' Data Project Aims to Identify Bias in the Criminal Justice System
Stanford University researchers have launched the Project on Law, Order, & Algorithms, a database of 100 million traffic stops from across the U.S.
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Gps Tracking Down to the Centimeter
University of California, Riverside researchers say they have developed a more computationally efficient way to process data from global positioning systems.
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