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Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs
The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars.
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Rover Takes on Steepest Slope Ever Tried on Mars
NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.
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China's Companies Poised to Take Leap in Developing a Driverless Car
China could emerge as the premier country for the development and adoption of self-driving vehicles.
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.
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Biology Software Promises Easier Way to Program Living Cells
Synthetic biologists have created software that automates the design of DNA circuits for living cells.
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Why Microsoft Believes that AI Bots Are the Only Logical Path Forward
For Microsoft, the future of communication is bots.
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.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival
A $320-million project aims to bring the textile sector into the digital era by embedding sensors and semiconductors into fabrics.
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Why Do the Feds sually Try to nlock Phones? It's Drugs, Not Terrorism
Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen...
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.
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The Apple-Fbi Battle Is Over, But the New Crypto Wars Have Just Begun
Apple's standoff with the FBI unfolded over the course of several weeks, but ended in a matter of days.
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DARPA $2m Contest Looks to Bring AI to Wireless Spectrum Provisioning
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently announced the $2-million Spectrum Collaboration Challenge.
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Tiny Little Multi-Modal Picobug Walks, Flies, Grabs Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory have designed a robot called Picobug that can fly and walk, and soon will be able to grab things...
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Where's the Lane? Self-Driving Cars Confused By Shabby .s. Roadways
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event...
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'mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth
What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars?
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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Apple's New Challenge: Learning How the .s. Cracked Its Iphone
Now that the United States government has cracked open an iPhone that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting without Apple's help, the...
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The MIT Lab Flushing Out a City's Secrets
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers believe analyzing the contents of sewage could provide scientists with new insights into human health.
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Bitcoin Technology's Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a firm at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure, is about to give the technology behind bitcoin a big test: seeing...
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