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Birdsongs Automatically Decoded by Computer Scientists
Researchers have developed a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections.
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Transistor Successor Set to Bring on "the Machine" Age Soon
A replacement for the ordinary transistor may make it to market by the end of this decade, an event that will herald a radical redesign of traditional computer...
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How Technology Is Unraveling the Clues of Flight Mh17
Over the weekend, the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy turned into a "Law and Order" episode on the international stage with Secretary of State John Kerrymake...
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Hearts Stars Trial Software That Predicts Injuries
New software could be used to determine when athletes are at risk to suffer an injury.
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Talk on Cracking Internet Anonymity Service Tor Canceled
A highly anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Internet privacy service Tor was withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference, a spokeswoman...
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Researchers Develop a Wikipedia of Fact-Checking During Natural Disasters
Researchers have developed an online platform for crowd-sourcing the veracity of information posted to social media.
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Will Science Burst the Multiverse's Bubble?
This philosophical question overlaps with real physics when hypothesizing what lies beyond the boundary of our observable universe.
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...
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How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.
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Air Force Research: How to se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...
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Adding Depth to Mobile Imaging
Google's Project Tango aims to provide an additional dimension to the next generation of mobile devices.
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.
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Joining the Dots For Quantum Computing
Researchers have demonstrated the scalability of quantum dot architectures by trapping and controlling four electrons in a single device.
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Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.
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The World's First Photonic Router
A team of scientists have demonstrated the world's first photonic router, a step toward overcoming the difficulties of building quantum computers.
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Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family
In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world's most advanced consumer robots awaits command...
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