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Security Researchers Find a Way to Hack Cars
Security researchers plan to demonstrate a method to hack into and control vehicles at the Black Hat and Def Con hacking conferences in August.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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After 85-Year Search, Massless Particle with Promise for Next-Generation Electronics Discovered
Princeton University researchers have confirmed the existence of Weyl fermions, which could permit a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics...
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Nfl Teams Train Qbs with Vr
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
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Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering...
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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—with Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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Cars May Soon nderstand More of What You Say
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon.
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Tiny Wires, Great Potential
Harvard scientists have developed a new type of nanowire that can absorb light at specific wavelengths, as well as also absorb light from other parts of the spectrum...
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The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How Nasa Nearly Missed It
Planetary scientists are coloring in the family portrait of our solar system as close-up photographs and observations stream back from Pluto, a world three billion...
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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Google Proposes Open Source Beacons
Google's Eddystone protocol uses an open specification for Bluetooth low energy beacons to encourage developers, marketers, and others to adopt the technology.
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Rice Tests Wireless Data Delivery Over Active Tv Channels
Rice University researchers have developed which they say is the first system that enables wireless data transmission over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts...
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Hitchhiking Robot Embarking on Coast-to-Coast Tour Across .s.
HitchBOT set out on its first cross-country tour of the U.S. on Friday.
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Ibm's Machine-Learning Crystal Ball Can Foresee Renewable Energy Availability
Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict days in advance how much power solar and wind plants will generate for the U.S. power grid...
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The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...
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A New 'model For Models' in Software Development Effort Estimation
Researchers put forth an automatically transformed linear model as a suitable baseline model for comparison against software estimation effort models.
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The Square Kilometre Array: Radio Silence in Western Australia For Most Powerful Telescope in History
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...
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NASA's New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto's 'Heart'
In the latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million...
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Firing Squad Synchronization, Computer Science's Most Macabre-Sounding Problem
Getting a firing squad to fire in sync is a puzzle that was studied in computer science's early days, because it was vital to automata theory.
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