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Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-Ray Vision
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy,...
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The Physics of Life
First, Zvonimir Dogic and his students took microtubules—threadlike proteins that make up part of the cell's internal 'cytoskeleton'—and mixed them with kinesins...
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Full-Circle Panorama Beside 'namib Dune' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep...
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New Questions About Many Queries For Quantum Computing
Researchers in Canada have raised new concerns about the advantages of the bucket brigade model for algorithms using super-polynomial oracle queries.
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'human Computation' Could Save the World Without the Risks of AI
Some scientists are urging human-machine collaboration via systems that integrate computer and human capabilities.
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How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
There was once a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace...
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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.
Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico...
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The A.i. Anxiety
The world’s spookiest philosopher is Nick Bostrom, a thin, soft-spoken Swede.
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Machines, Lost in Translation: The Dream of Universal Understanding
It was early 1954 when computer scientists, for the first time, publicly revealed a machine that could translate between human languages. It became known as the...
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Nasa and the .s. Air Force Test a New Ground-Based Gps
Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.
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Nasa Suspends 2016 Launch of Insight Mission to Mars
After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy...
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Nobody Knew How Big a Deal the Cloud Would Be—they Do Now
Ten years ago, Amazon unleashed a technology that we now call, for better or for worse, cloud computing.
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A Fish May Hold the Key to More Efficient Wireless Networks
Researchers at the University of Georgia think the eigenmannia, a small South American fish, could hold the solution to radio frequency interference.
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How Anyone Can Explore Mars Through Virtual Reality
Fusion, MIT, and NASA are collaborating on a VR experience that will place users on Mars long before real astronauts reach the Red Planet in the 2030s.
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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Is Evolution More Intelligent Than We Thought?
University of Southampton researchers have shown that evolution can learn from previous experience.
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A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...
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The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.
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