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Printing Houses on the Moon
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Printing Houses on the Moon

How do you create structures on other worlds when the expense of carrying building materials there is so great?

So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?

A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...

The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever
From ACM TechNews

The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever

Computer researchers say machines are now almost as adept at recognizing objects as humans, thanks to an algorithm created by University of Toronto scientists in...

Nasa to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid
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Nasa to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid

NASA has long wanted to send a mission to Mars to grab some of its surface and sling it back to Earth.

Where to Grab Space Debris
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Where to Grab Space Debris

Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.

'smart Genes' Prove Elusive
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'smart Genes' Prove Elusive

Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog.

Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize

It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.

Google Is Target of European Backlash on ­.s. Tech Dominance
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Google Is Target of European Backlash on ­.s. Tech Dominance

A top German official called for Google to be broken up.

Smartphones Pioneered For ­se in Parkinson's Disease Detection
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Smartphones Pioneered For ­se in Parkinson's Disease Detection

Researchers are working to make it possible to use smartphones to collect information on how the symptoms of degenerative diseases change on an hourly basis. 

Google Glass Can Now Track Your Stress Level
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Google Glass Can Now Track Your Stress Level

Researchers say they have developed a new method for using Google Glass to track a user's stress level and provide instant fitness feedback. 

China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System With Near-Perfect Accuracy
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China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System With Near-Perfect Accuracy

The Chinese Academy of Science plans to unveil a face-recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy next year. 

No Easy Parking Spot For First-Ever Comet Landing
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No Easy Parking Spot For First-Ever Comet Landing

Landing on a comet will be even harder than we thought.

The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy
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The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy

On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...

Our Cyborg Future
From ACM Opinion

Our Cyborg Future

In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a...

Manual Control
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Manual Control

Mezzanine is a collaborative-conferencing system that enables multiple users to share and control digital content from any device using gesture controls. 

Loneliness Narrows the Uncanny Valley
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Loneliness Narrows the Uncanny Valley

Talking to inanimate objects when you're feeling lonely may not be so strange after all.

Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence
From ACM News

Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence

Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex.

The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
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The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer

John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...

NASA Instrument on Rosetta: First Science Results
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NASA Instrument on Rosetta: First Science Results

A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...

Plate Tectonics Found on Europa
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Plate Tectonics Found on Europa

If you have got an idea for how to study Europa, then NASA wants to hear from you.
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