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How Typography Can Save Your Life
After decades of silently shouting at the top of its lungs, the National Weather Service recently announced that it's going to stop publishing its forecasts and...
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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Altering a Robot's Gender and Social Roles May Be a Screen Change Away
Pennsylvania State University researchers have found robots can keep their parts and still change their perceived gender.
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Tech Helps Teens Battle Asthma
Hyekyun Rhee, chair of nursing science at the University of Rochester's School of Nursing, has developed ways to help teens better manage their asthma.
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Ingestible Origami Robot
Researchers have demonstrated an origami robot that can unfold from a ingestible capsule and use external magnetic fields to navigate across the stomach wall.
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2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System
Dwarf planets tend to be a mysterious bunch. With the exception of Ceres, which resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, all members of this...
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Ibm's Watson Has a New Project: Fighting Cybercrime
IBM's Watson supercomputer hardly needs any more resumé-padding. It’s already wonJeopardy, written a cookbook, and dabbled in revolutionizing healthcare.
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This Turing Machine Should Run Forever nless Maths Is Wrong
One hundred and fifty years of mathematics will be proved wrong if a new computer program stops running. Thankfully, it's unlikely to happen, but the code behind...
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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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Holoflex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...
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Algorithm Clones Van Gogh's Artistic Style and Pastes It Onto Other Images, Movies
The nature of artistic style is something of a mystery to most people.
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Nasa's Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered
NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets—the single largest finding of planets to date.
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Police and Tech Giants Wrangle Over Encryption on Capitol Hill
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney of Manhattan, visited Washington late last month to argue his case on a pressing issue: encryption.
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Johns Hopkins Scientist Programs Robot For 'soft Tissue' Surgery
Researchers have developed the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot surgeon, which they say can adjust to the subtle movement of soft tissue to execute precise suturing...
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Not Lost in Translation: Researchers 'teach' Computers to Translate Accurately
Scientists are seeking to improve the capabilities of online translation programs by embedding new artificial intelligence methods to build complete sentences.
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Gene Therapy's First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here
A treatment now pending approval in Europe will be the first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure for a deadly disease.
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Stingrays, the Spy Tool the Government Tried, and Failed, to Hide
Stingrays, a secretive law enforcement surveillance tool, are one of the most controversial technologies in the government’s spy kit.
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How Nasa's Next Big Telescope Could Take Pictures of Another Earth
Can NASA's next big space telescope take a picture of an alien Earth-like planet orbiting another star?
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A New Mobile Phone App For Grassroots Mapping
Researchers have developed a mobile phone application that uses geographic data to map landscapes and help humanitarian rescue workers in disaster-struck regions...
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