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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'

FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.

Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.

Scientists Are ­sing Sound to Track Nighttime Bird Migration
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Scientists Are ­sing Sound to Track Nighttime Bird Migration

Researchers are helping to track the nighttime migratory patterns of birds by teaching a computer to recognize their flight calls.

Nc State to Form Nsf-Funded Center For Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With ­iuc and Georgia Tech
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Nc State to Form Nsf-Funded Center For Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With ­iuc and Georgia Tech

Three universities are forming the Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning to accelerate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and...

Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow

Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...

How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
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How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s

From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly...

Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet

NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...

How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes

When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...

Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's
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Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's

Experiments are exploring a new class of semiconductor materials that could form the basis of phase-change memory capable of faster and permanent data storage.

Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes
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Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes

A five-year, $1.5-million award will enable Duke University professor Ingrid Daubechies to expand her collaborative research involving mathematics and electrical...

Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
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Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels

University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can accurately monitor alcohol level within 15 minutes.

Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?

More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.

Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them

In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...

Good News—the Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All
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Good News—the Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All

New data shows that the majority of robot-enabled scam phone calls came from fewer than 40 call centers, a finding that offers hope the growing menace of robocalls...

Hopes For Revolutionary New Lhc Particle Dashed
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Hopes For Revolutionary New Lhc Particle Dashed

It would have been bigger than finding the Higgs boson and marked the beginning of a new era in particle physics.

Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data
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Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data

One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...

Programmable Ions Set the Stage For General-Purpose Quantum Computers
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage For General-Purpose Quantum Computers

Researchers have introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module.

AI Reads Your Tweets and Spots When You're Being Sarcastic
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AI Reads Your Tweets and Spots When You're Being Sarcastic

Researchers at the University of Lisbon have developed a machine learning system that can identify sarcasm on Twitter by examining a user's past tweets.

Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science

Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...

Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision

Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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