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Researchers Develop Method to Map Cancer Progression
Researchers at New York University have developed a computational method to map cancer progression.
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Artificial Intelligence Plus Common Sense
Austrian researchers are working to advance the development of artificial intelligence and equip robots with common sense.
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Nasa's Juno Peers Inside a Giant
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its long anticipated arrival at Jupiter on July 4. Coming face-to-face with the gas giant, Juno will begin to unravel some of the...
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The Advent of Virtual Humans
Justine Cassell has taken her virtual assistant Sara on a road trip.
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Software For Fmri Yield Erroneous Results
Researchers at Linkoping University and the University of Warwick have shown that common statistical methods used to analyze brain activity through images taken...
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New, Better Way to Build Circuits For World's First seful Quantum Computers
A team at Penn State performed a single quantum operation on individual atoms on separate stacked planes. Professor David S. Weiss says the technique highlights...
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Clever Attack ses the Sound of a Computer's Fan to Steal Data
In the past two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that,...
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Nasa Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-Like Martian Past
Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.
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As It Searches For Suspects, the Fbi May Be Looking at You
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.
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Tour De France to se Thermal Imaging to Fight Mechanical Doping
They call it "mechanical doping," but the name simply doesn't do it justice.
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Closing in on Jupiter
Last Friday (6/24), at exactly 9:57 and 48 seconds a.m. PDT, NASA's Juno spacecraft was 5.5 million miles (8.9 million kilometers) from its July 4th appointment...
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Expansion of Early niverse Modelled in nprecedented Detail
For the first time, cosmologists have used the full power of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to perform detailed calculations of the Universe's evolution...
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Data Centers Are No Longer The Energy Hogs They Once Were
Efforts by some of the world's largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon to reduce the amount of energy their data centers consume is now bearing...
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First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from S Panel
CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.
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Bletchley Park in 360: See Inside Britain's Enigma-Breaking Hq
In a special video production, CNET takes you inside the hallowed halls of Bletchley Park, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, England where the Enigma code was...
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How Google Deepmind's Ant Soccer Skills Can Help Improve Your Search Results
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence is learning to navigate thee-dimensional environments and games, including a soccer game played as a virtual ant.
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How Well Do Facial Recognition Algorithms Cope With a Million Strangers?
The MegaFace Challenge aims to assess the performance of face-recognition algorithms at the million-person scale.
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