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The Attention Machine
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...
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Human Traffickers Caught on Hidden Internet
In November 2012 a 28-year-old woman plunged 15 meters from a bedroom window to the pavement in New York City, a devastating fall that left her body broken but...
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Look Into My Eyes: Tracking Your Gaze Could Be the Next Big Gaming Input
The bulk of the press release announcing a March 10 release for the PC port of Assassin's Creed Rogue is strictly boilerplate.
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Looking nder the Bitcoin Bonnet: Students Aim to Enhance Transparency
Trinity College Dublin researchers are studying Bitcoin in an effort to make the cryptocurrency more transparent and reduce the risk of fraud.
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Monkey Mustaches and Beards Help Algorithm Recognize Faces
New York University researchers have developed an algorithm that can correctly identify colorful monkeys called guenons by their faces.
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Autonomous Vehicles: No Drivers Required
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...
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NASA's Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain
The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the rover's...
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...
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Forecasting the Flu Better
A research team at the University of California, San Diego says it has refined and improved the predictions of Google Flu Trends.
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Stanford Researchers se Big Data to Identify Patients at Risk of High-Cholesterol Disorder
Stanford University researchers are working to identify hospital patients who may have a genetic disease that causes a deadly buildup of cholesterol in their arteries...
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Don't Call Them 'utility' Rules: The Fcc's Net Neutrality Regime, Explained
Within a few weeks we’ll have a huge document full of legalese on the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, to replace the near-200-page ...
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Could a Robot Have Written This Story? The Rise of the Robo-Journalist
At large news agencies where speed is crucial, template-style stories have long been used for company results, allowing journalists to simply key in the relevant...
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Planck Mission Explores the History of Our Universe
Hot gas, dust and magnetic fields mingle in a colorful swirl in this new map of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Quantum Computing Without Qubits
For more than 20 years, Ivan H. Deutsch has struggled to design the guts of a working quantum computer.
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Comet Scientists Abandon Philae Flyby
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will not make a dedicated flyby to search for the lost comet lander Philae any time soon, according to a post on...
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Graphene's Cousin Silicene Makes Transistor Debut
Seven years ago, silicene was little more than a theorist's dream.
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...
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Google Brain's Co-Inventor Tells Why He's Building Chinese Neural Networks
To chat with Andrew Ng I almost have to tackle him.
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Programming: Pick p Python
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.
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