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Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...
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Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks
For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable...
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How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.
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The Toughest Spaceship We've Ever Built
It's been a long time since anyone tried landing on Venus,
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Nasa Rover's Sand-Dune Studies Yield Surprise
Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about...
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se Your Eyes, Voice—and Thoughts—to Replace Passwords
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and...
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How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin's Civil War
A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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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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Quantum Cryptographers Set 400k Distance Record
Researchers in China say they have demonstrated a form of device-independent quantum cryptography, sending a key over a distance of more than 100 kilometers at...
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This New Device Can Visualize Your Thoughts (sort Of)
The idea of a device that can materialize one's memories out of thin air seems like it could only exist in science fiction. But in a new study, researchers were...
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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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Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area
The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to...
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Trump's Secret Data Reversal
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...
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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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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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