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Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained
Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance.
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Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch
Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.
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How Tomorrow's Battles Will Be Fought in Augmented Reality
For nearly three decades, Bob Stone has worked in the field of virtual reality, and he now sees the technology's applications becoming a reality.
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That
The California HealthCare Foundation offered $100,000 for an algorithm that would allow artificial intelligence to detect retinal damage due to diabetic retinopathy...
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The Dismal State of America's Decade-Old Voting Machines
Almost all U.S. states are using technologically outdated touchscreen and optical-scan voting systems that are at least 10 years old, according to a report.
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...
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China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From .s. Tech Firms
The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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Brain-Controlled Smart Home Lets You Turn the Tv On By Thinking
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.
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Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
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Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.
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The Milky Way's Missing Mass: Partially Found
Giant galaxies such as the Milky Way and Andromeda consist mostly of exotic dark matter.
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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it.
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Scientists Propose App That Detects Emotions Based on Walking Style
Researchers at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are developing a methodology to identify a person's emotional state based on the way they walk.
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Learning Spoken Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can learn to distinguish spoken words.
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