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Nasa Finds New Way to Track Ocean Currents from Space
A team of NASA and university scientists has developed a new way to use satellite measurements to track changes in Atlantic Ocean currents, which are a driving...
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Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions For Digital Age
Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice, and no place, save the Library of Congress, can match the collection at Harvard's Law School Library...
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Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...
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Email Encryption Is Broken
A new study has found technology designed to encrypt and authenticate emails is ineffective.
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Researchers Develop a Fast, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface
Researchers say they have developed a non-invasive brain-computer interface that offers the fastest information transfer rate ever achieved.
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Robots Can Now Teach Each Other New Tricks
Two robots operating in different academic research labs have demonstrated a rudimentary ability to exchange knowledge.
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How Wireless 'x-Ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall.
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Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned For Nasa Mars Orbiter
Tables stored in flash memory aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) tell locations of Earth and the sun for the past 10 years, but not their locations...
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Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet For Anonymous, Encrypted Im
The anonymity network Tor has long been the paranoid standard for privacy online, and the Tor Browser that runs on it remains the best way to use the web while...
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Dog Robot Copes with Rough Terrain
Researchers have designed and built a new robot "dog" that can traverse rough terrain either autonomously or while controlled by a remote operator.
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How Sensorimotor Intelligence May Develop
The emergence of self-directed behavior in robots can be grounded in the synaptic plasticity of their nervous systems, according to a new study.
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Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos For the Blind on Its Own
Facebook's Accessibility Team says it is developing an artificial intelligence tool to automatically describe photos posted on the social network to blind users...
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Smart Glasses Translate Video Into Sound to Help the Blind See
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...
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Leap Second Heads Into Fierce Debate
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...
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IBM Says Carbon, Oxygen Essential to Advancing Resistive Memory
Researchers at IBM Zurich believe they have overcome some of the key challenges that have stood in the way of building memory technology using carbon.
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Nanoquakes Probe New 2-Dimensional Material
New research could lead to a post-graphene era of new materials for electronic applications.
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Researchers Put Words In Your Mouth—virtually
In the 1997 action movie Face/Off, an FBI agent must undergo face-transplant surgery and assume the identity of a ruthless terrorist to foil a plot.
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Three Scenarios For the Evolution of Exascale Computing
Sandia National Labs' Erik DeBenedictis outlines three scenarios for evolving supercomputers to the 1- to 50-exaflop range.
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European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments
The European Parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard "net neutrality" in the EU.
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