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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Gaia: 'go' For Science
Following extensive in-orbit commissioning and several unexpected challenges, ESA's billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is now ready to begin its science mission.
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The Remarkable Story of the nderwater Internet
In October of 1971, in the midst of the Cold War, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Halibut entered heavily guarded Russian waters in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Meet the Online Tracking Device That Is Virtually Impossible to Block
A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.
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Nasa Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of...
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Russia Offers $110,000 to Crack Tor Anonymous Network
Russia has offered 3.9m roubles ($110,000; £65,000) in a contest seeking a way to crack the identities of users of the Tor network.
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Behind the Smoking Guns: Inside Nypd's 21st Century Arsenal
In the early morning hours of last Sept. 25, a stocky young man bolted the Bora Bora Lounge in Highbridge, the Bronx, with a gun in his hand and squeezed off seven...
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How to Invent a Person Online
On April 8, 2013, I received an envelope in the mail from a nonexistent return address in Toledo, Ohio.
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Art By Algorithm: Computer Evolves New Artworks
New software creates digital artworks using algorithms that mimic natural selection.
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Digging Through Big Data to Find Alien Life
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields...
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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U.s. Government Chatbot Gets You to Tell All
Want access to the U.S. government's secrets? Talk to the robot.
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Cloud Provides Chip Design Education to Developing Countries
Semiconductor Research Corp. and Silicon Cloud International are deploying EDA hardware and software in a private cloud with the goal of educating and training...
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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Surface Impressions of Rosetta's Comet
Surface structures are becoming visible in new images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the scientific imaging system OSIRIS onboard the European Space...
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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing...
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No Man's Sky: A Vast Game Crafted By Algorithms
Sean Murray, one of the creators of the computer game No Man's Sky, can't guarantee that the virtual universe he is building is infinite, but he's certain that,...
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Computer Science Adds New Dimension to Study of Chemistry
Computer science is benefiting the study of chemistry by adding a layer to analyze chemical processes.
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More Eyes on the Skies
The future, it is often said, belongs to those who plan for it.
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Harold Edgerton: The Man Who Froze Time
Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton.
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