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Webcams sed to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.
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Icy Heart Could Be Key to Pluto's Strange Geology
Pluto's icy heart beats with a planetary rhythm.
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New Technique Allows Scientists to 'listen' to Proteins
Researchers have come up with a bold new method for representing and understanding a protein's shape: translating it into music.
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Debates: Linguistic Trick Boosts Poll Numbers
A study of U.S. presidential debates found mimicking subtle aspects of an opponent's language better engages a third-party audience and leads to a bump in the polls...
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What Iarpa Knows About Your Canceled Dinner Reservation
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is running several projects examining how crowdsourced data could be used to predict specific events.
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Here's How Young People Decide When They're Drunk 'enough,' According to Math
Mathematical models developed by engineers at Ohio State University have enabled colleagues to explain the factors that drive alcohol consumption among young people...
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A New Era of Internet Attacks Powered By Everyday Devices
When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory...
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The Amazing Cloud Cities We Could Build on Venus
It's hot enough to melt lead, the acid rain will scorch the flesh from your bones – and it's the perfect place to raise a family. Venus, not Mars, might be the...
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Inside Microsoft's Quest For a Topological Quantum Computer
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...
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If Planet Nine Is Out There, It Tilts Our Solar System
Most people think the eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun along a straight plane, like a disc on a record player.
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Camera on Mars Orbiter Shows Signs of Latest Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to Europe's Schiaparelli test lander...
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Automating Big-Data Analysis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an approach to automating most of the process of big data analysis.
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Lego-Like Wall Produces Acoustic Holograms
Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have demonstrated a system that can create and control three-dimensional acoustic holograms.
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The Robot Eyes Have It: Cutting-Edge Tool For Koala Conservation
Queensland University of Technology researchers are developing technologies they say could provide less expensive and more accurate koala-tracking methods.
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The Power of Prediction Markets
It was a great way to mix science with gambling, says Anna Dreber.
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New Horizons: Possible Clouds on Pluto, Next Target is Reddish
The next target for NASA's New Horizons mission—which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015—apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main...
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The Perpetual Lineup: Half of S Adults in a Face-Recognition Database
Half of American adults are in a face-recognition database, according to a Georgetown University study released Tuesday.
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Mit's 'moral Machine' Crowdsources Decisions About Autonomous Driving, but Experts Call It Misguided
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's "Moral Machine" platform lets the public judge the types of ethical decisions autonomous vehicles should make...
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How Secure Is Your Vote?
Many U.S. counties using voting machines lack paper trails for verification of results of the presidential election in November, says a Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
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