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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars

Using three-dimensional laser-scanning techniques, two architectural designers are mapping London with an autonomous car to demonstrate its artistic potential. 

Researchers Find Way to Create Wide Variety of New Holograms
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Researchers Find Way to Create Wide Variety of New Holograms

North Carolina State University researchers have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern...

To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies

Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.

Baidu, the 'chinese Google,' Is Teaching AI to Spot Malware
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Baidu, the 'chinese Google,' Is Teaching AI to Spot Malware

Andrew Ng picks up his iPhone and opens an app called FaceYou.

­pgrade Helps Nasa Study Mineral Veins on Mars
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­pgrade Helps Nasa Study Mineral Veins on Mars

Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part...

Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical Interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects
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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical Interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects

Queen's University researchers have developed BitDrones, an interactive swarm of flying three-dimensional pixels. 

Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?
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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?

Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering are developing robots that could help rescue people from fires.

Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart
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Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart

The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.

The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly

Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."

The Crispr Quandary
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The Crispr Quandary

One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...

Researchers Take Two Big Steps Toward Quantum Computing
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Researchers Take Two Big Steps Toward Quantum Computing

Two related teams of Austrian researchers have made a pair of discoveries related to quantum entanglement they describe in two new papers. 

To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife

Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.

Get Smart
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Get Smart

Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan have developed a system they say could lead to the next generation of home thermostats. ...

Google Just Open Sourced Tensorflow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine
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Google Just Open Sourced Tensorflow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine

Tech pundit Tim O'Reilly had just tried the new Google Photos app, and he was amazed by the depth of its artificial intelligence.

Nsa Says How Often, Not When, It Discloses Software Flaws
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Nsa Says How Often, Not When, It Discloses Software Flaws

The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities in computer software, thereby leaving U.S. companies...

Icy Volcanoes May Dot Pluto's Surface
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Icy Volcanoes May Dot Pluto's Surface

Two icy volcanoes may lurk near Pluto's south pole, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest.

Researchers Threatened a Robot With a Knife to See If Humans Cared
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Researchers Threatened a Robot With a Knife to See If Humans Cared

A recently published study found that human beings will readily empathize with human-like robots. 

The Solution to Faster Computing? Sing to Your Data
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The Solution to Faster Computing? Sing to Your Data

Sound could be the solution to faster computing, according to researchers from the universities of Sheffield and Leeds. 

Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate
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Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate

The Going Dark encryption debate surfaced again on Wednesday at a small security conference here, and as in previous iterations before larger technical audiences...

Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things
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Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things

Moving the Internet of Things forward will require, among other things, standards, the ability to configure massive numbers of devices, and a healthy dose of paranoia...
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