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What We've Learned About Pluto
In the year since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, the dwarf planet has maintained its icy heart.
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Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win
Microsoft pulled the strings. At least, that’s what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints...
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Apple's New App Will Teach the Next Generation How to Code
Apple's new Swift Playgrounds iPad application is designed to teach novices how to code, using the Swift programming language with their mobile devices.
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Tiny Microchips Enable Extreme Science
Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration have developed a family of application-specific integrated circuits to measure particles in...
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Nanotech 'tattoo' Can Map Emotions and Monitor Muscle Activity
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a temporary "electronic tattoo" that can measure the activity of muscle and nerve cells.
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits
Scientists have developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits just a few atoms thick, which could lead to paper-thin electronics.
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Exploring Networks Efficiently
Researchers are hypothesizing that the study of ant colony behavior could lead to improved network communication algorithms.
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The Many Ways to Map the Brain
Brain mapping has come a long way since the days of Korbinian Brodmann.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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Durus Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots
SRI International's DURUS robot can now walk like a human while wearing normal shoes.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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Graphene Could Revolutionize the Internet of Things
Researchers say they have developed a tunable, graphene-based device that could significantly boost the speed and efficiency of wireless communication systems.
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Air Force Seeks Ideas For How Quantum Computing Can Help Warfighters
The U.S. Air Force has requested white papers that describe new ways quantum computing could help achieve its mission.
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Dna as a Data Storage Medium
Will genetic material supplant other substances for archival data storage?
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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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A Computer Binge-Watched Tv and Learned to Predict What Happens Next
You watch hundreds of hours of television, they call you a lazy slob. A computer does it, and it's a technological success story.
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Science on the Verge of Creating 'emotional' Computer
Researchers are developing an emotion-based artificial intelligence that will be able to understand the context of what is going on, as well as unfolding scenarios...
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