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Nyc Subways Slowly pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...
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The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids.
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Rosetta Orbiter to Swoop Down On Comet in February
The European Space Agency's orbiting Rosetta spacecraft is expected to come within four miles (six kilometers) of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
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Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.
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Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
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Comet Lander's Location Still Eludes Scientists
More than a month after the Philae spacecraft bounced to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, European Space Agency scientists still have not been able...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.
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Amputee Simultaneously Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Mind
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...
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Thought Control Makes Robot Arm Grab and Move Objects
A woman paralysed from the neck down can now grab a ball with a robotic arm—just by thinking about it.
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How Disney Is Perfecting Animated Eyeballs
Creating lifelike animated characters is hard.
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Nasa Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a...
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Venus Express Goes Gently Into the Night
ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns...
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ndersea Robot Explores Life Below Arctic Ice
While 2014 has not been kind to rockets, it has been a banner year for robots of all stripes.
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Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.
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New Way to Turn Genes On
Using a gene-editing system originally developed to delete specific genes, MIT researchers have now shown that they can reliably turn on any gene of their choosing...
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NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three shock waves. The most recent shock wave, first observed in February 2014, still appears to be going on. One wave,...
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Robobrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.
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