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Programming Intelligent nderwater Robots
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are testing a new method of programming autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Intriguing Geology of Ceres Revealed in New Pictures
Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Solar System, is finally getting its close-up. NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived in March, and is now taking photographs from as...
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Facebook Can Recognise You in Photos Even If You're Not Looking
Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up. But what if your face is hidden from view?
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'epic' Fail—how Opm Hackers Tapped the Mother Lode of Espionage Data
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Will Millimeter Waves Maximize 5g Wireless?
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...
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Supercomputers Surprisingly Link Dna Crosses to Cancer
University of Texas at Austin researchers used supercomputers to discover a surprising link between cross-shaped pieces of DNA, or cruciforms, and human cancer. ...
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Drones Lack Autonomy
Researchers and engineers are exploring ways to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles choose to fly themselves, and to fly more safely.
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Europe's First Humans: What Scientists Do and Don't Know
Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe—who are thought to have appeared ...
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Facebook's New AI Can Paint, But Google's Knows How to Party
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...
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Rosetta's Miro Instrument Maps Comet Water
Since last September, scientists using NASA's Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have generated maps...
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Face Recognition Row Over Right to Identify You in the Street
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"
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The Surreal Dreams of Google's Image Recognition Software
Image recognition is a complicated business. For Google, that means an artificial neural network—software capable of learning.
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Injectable Implants Could Help Crack the Brain's Codes
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.
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Inside an MIT Researcher's Grand Plan to Create the Personal Food Computer
The CityFarm research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab seeks to expand the emerging field of vertical farming.
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Researchers Create Transparent, Stretchable Conductors sing Nano-Accordion Structure
North Carolina State University researchers have created stretchable, transparent conductors using a nano-accordion design.
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Ancient American Genome Rekindles Legal Row
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for...
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Eight Spacecraft that Have Been Rescued, Resurrected, and Repurposed
Earlier this week, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander finally woke up after a seven-month snooze.
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
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