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Google Teaches 'ais' to Invent Their Own Crypto and Avoid Eavesdropping
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying...
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Precise Quantum Cloning: Possible Pathway to Secure Communication
Researchers from The Australian National University and University of Queensland have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information.
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Robotic Tutors For Primary School Children
Researchers in Spain have developed an integrated computational architecture for use with software applications in schools.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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The FCC Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Protect Your Online Privacy
Federal officials delivered a landmark ruling in favor of online privacy Thursday, limiting how Internet providers use and sell customer data, while asserting that...
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Further Clues to Fate of Mars Lander, Seen From Orbit
The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars is providing new details of the scene near the Martian equator where Europe's Schiaparelli test lander hit the surface...
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Your Dvr Didn't Take Down the Internet, Yet
Last week ended with a mid-level internet catastrophe. You may have noticed that for most of Friday popular sites like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify (and yes, WIRED)...
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New Method Reduces Amount of Training Data Needed For Facial Performance Capture System
Disney Research has developed a facial-capture system that uses a sample of actors' recordings to synthetically generate the data needed to train the system.
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Rice's Energy-Stingy Indoor Mobile Locator Ensures ser Privacy
A new system developed by Rice University researchers could enable mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors.
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.
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Tangled p in Spacetime
"All the world’s a stage…," Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too.
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X-Rays Are Revealing the Mysterious Writings in Mummy Coffins
It's a sleepy summer Friday at Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.
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Fujitsu Eyes Architecture to Rival Quantum Computers
Fujitsu Laboratories is working with University of Toronto researchers in Japan to develop a computing architecture that addresses combinatorial optimization problems...
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Flying Drones Could Soon Recharge While Airborne With New Technology
Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated a highly efficient method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying.
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It Ain't Me, Babe: Researchers Find Flaws In Police Facial Recognition Technology
Nearly half of American adults have been entered into law enforcement facial recognition databases, despite problems with the accuracy of the technology.
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Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars Lander
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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How Nasa Fights To Keep Our Dying Spacecraft Alive
Sometime in the next 10 or so years, the massive antennas that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network will pick up a faint, distant signal for the final time.
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Typing While Skyping Could Compromise Privacy
Researchers have found a security breach in which keystroke sounds can be recorded during a Skype voice or video call and later reassembled as text.
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