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Snowden: .s. Has Put Too Much Emphasis on Cyber-Offense, Needs Defense
In an on-camera interview with James Bamford for an upcoming episode of PBS' NOVA, Edward Snowden warned that the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security...
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Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy
Scientists have paired NASA's Cassini spacecraft with the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system to pinpoint the position...
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A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage For the Second Time Ever
Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely...
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Why Passenger Planes Can Still Vanish
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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A Spectacular Spiral May Encircle the Milky Way
Mapping a galaxy isn't easy when you live inside it.
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Fbi Says Search Warrants Not Needed to Use 'stingrays' in Public Places
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in public places.
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of R Grad's Studies tilize Google Glass
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student is studying how Google Glass can improve the quality of life of people on the autism spectrum.
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Exoplanet Bounty Includes Most Earth-Like Worlds Yet
NASA's Kepler space telescope has hit a milestone: confirming the existence of 1,000 planets, including a fresh crop of alien worlds that are more Earth-like than...
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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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Someday Soon, You May Pay Your Restaurant Bill With A Retina Scan
The past 30 years have seen payments shift from cash and checks to debit cards and websites, and most recently to mobile phone apps, including Apple Pay and ...
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NASA's Messenger Probe Ready for Final Tour of Mercury
The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is almost out of gas.
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Robots Do Kitchen Duty With Cooking Video Dataset
Researchers have built a self-learning robot that was able to improve its cooking skills by watching YouTube videos.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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'Internet of Things' Poses Risks, FTC Chairwoman Warns
By 2015, the world will have 25 billion smart thermostats, fitness bands, and other Internet-connected, data-spewing devices, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
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Galaxy Seen Shuddering from Ancient Collision
Using thousands of exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created the sharpest and deepest image ever assembled of the Andromeda galaxy.
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Energy Harvesting Extends Life of Small Devices
Capturing ambient energy can keep off-grid devices running.
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Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can't Recognize
Look at these black and yellow bars and tell me what you see.
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Diamond Defect May Lead to a Qubit Computer
A research group is looking to exploit a special kind of diamond defect in a project that could benefit those working to design a quantum computer.
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