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Microsoft Predicts Practical Quantum Computers Within 10 Years
Microsoft researchers say a working quantum computer, capable of outperforming traditional computers by orders of magnitude, could be available within 10 years. ...
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Nasa's K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'planet'
Scientists using NASA's repurposed Kepler space telescope, known as the K2 mission, have uncovered strong evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it...
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Car Infotainment Systems Distract Even with Voice Commands
Car infotainment systems that use voice commands may let drivers keep their hands on the wheel, but they're still highly distracting.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage.
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You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty...
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Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun
The search for signs of life in a mysterious star system hypothesized to potentially harbor an "alien megastructure" is now underway.
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Why Robot That Gets 'tired and Hormonal' Is a Good Thing
Having certain robots operate using the electronic equivalent of an endocrine system could present advantages, according to researchers.
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Academics Present New Breakthroughs For Fundamental Problems in Computer Science
Researchers this week presented papers on two fundamental problems in computer science at the IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...
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X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
The chip-enabled credit card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a double...
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New Research Method Identifies Stealth Attacks on Complicated Computer Systems
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University researchers have developed a program anomaly-detection approach to discovering stealth attacks on computers. ...
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Most Americans Would Be Fine with Some Internet Surveillance If They Were Notified
Despite increasingly heated rhetoric from opponents of government surveillance, a recent survey shows that most Americans would be okay with many kinds of Internet...
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Apple Ceo Defends Encryption, Opposes Government Back Door
Apple Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer and the director of the National Security Agency squared off on Monday in a debate over how much access technology companies...
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A Robot Finds Its Way sing Artificial 'gps' Brain Cells
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...
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Quantum Technology Set to Hit the Streets Within Two Years
The United Kingdom kicked off an initiative in 2013 that could result in the development of the world's most powerful quantum computer by 2020.
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...
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The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy
In the Northern hemisphere's sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the...
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How Human Nature Could Foil Tesla's New Autopilot
Researchers and driving safety experts warn the new autopilot option installed in most Tesla vehicles could cause unsafe conditions.
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Vast Cosmic Voids Merge Like Soap Bubbles
Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.
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