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Saving Lives By Letting Cars Talk to Each Other
Wireless connectivity offers to improve safety as semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars mature and proliferate.
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Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage.
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Sussex Physicists Develop New Touchscreen Technology
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Sussex say they have developed a new touchscreen technology based on electrodes made from indium tin oxide.
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Engineers Teach Machines to Recognize Tree Species
A new method developed by engineers from the California Institute of Technology has the potential to change the way urban forests are surveyed.
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How America's 911 Emergency Response System Can Be Hacked
Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University have created a method for disabling the U.S. 911 emergency system with telephony denial-of-service attacks.
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How Big Data and Algorithms Are Slashing the Cost of Fixing Flint's Water Crisis
University of Michigan researchers are using data analytics methods similar to those employed by Facebook and Amazon to help solve the water contamination in Flint...
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Humans Do Dumb Things with Smart Cities
New York City wants to make Wi-Fi available to anyone who walks its streets. But Gotham is finding out the hard way that free and open Internet access is ripe for...
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Simulation Highlights Potential For Low-Cost Security Imaging Device
Researchers say they are developing security imaging technology that would cost less than scanning devices used in airports to detect hidden weapons or contraband...
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Researchers Hope to Make Phone Batteries Last Longer
A team of researchers is investigating how common techniques used by programmers might be inadvertently contributing to the battery drain of smart phones.
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How Imperceptible Vibrations Could Take Augmented Reality to a New Level
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a technique to make augmented reality technologies more immersive.
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Detailed Map Shows Milky Way Is Bigger Than We Thought
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the largest, most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. It pinpoints the 3D positions of 1.1 billion stars, almost 400...
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Pluto 'paints' Its Largest Moon Red
In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA's approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, mission...
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How Space Scientists Turn Exoplanets Into Places We Can 'see'
Do a Google image search for "exoplanet."
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Faster Parallel Computing
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new programming language.
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Machine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic
A study by researchers from Tsinghua University in China focused on how traffic signaling can be optimized using deep reinforcement learning.
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A Computer Simulation to Spare Children From Heart Surgery
New software models and compares various pediatric heart surgery interventions in advance, as part of the European Union's CARDIOPROOF project.
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The Science of Smartphone Batteries and How to Keep Them Charged
Whenever a new iPhone gets announced, there's one feature that every Apple lover is hoping for: improved battery life.
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The Bizarre World of Bitcoin 'mining' Finds a New Home in Tibet
Inside a metal shed in the Tibetan highlands of western China, thousands of microprocessors flank narrow corridors, generating a constant hum and stifling waves...
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You're Pixelated
Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media’s most private parts.
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