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Then One Foggy Christmas Eve, Reindeers Got Connected
Reindeer herders in Finland are fitting their animals with Internet-connected collars to keep track of their whereabouts in the wilderness, using a mobile app. ...
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How Computers Got Shockingly Good at Recognizing Images
Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type "beach," and see my photos from various beaches I've visited over the last decade.
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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Deep Learning Technique Reveals 'Invisible' Objects in the Dark
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
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Synthesizing Natural Products With a Computational Step Saver
Yale University researchers have reduced the number of steps needed to synthesize two natural anticancer products, using a strategy for computational analysis in...
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Getting the Dirt on Creation, Inside OSIRIS-REx's First Close Look at Bennu
Last week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) the science team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission presented their first findings from the asteroid...
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Team Invents Method to Shrink Objects to the Nanoscale
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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NASA's Juno Mission Halfway to Jupiter Science
On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA's Juno spacecraft will be 3,140 miles (5,053 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at...
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Searching for the Perfect Artificial Synapse for AI
What's the best type of device from which to build a neural network? Of course, it should be fast, small, consume little power, have the ability to reliably store...
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China Has Never Had a Real Chip Industry. Making AI Chips Could Change That.
Donald Trump is speaking Mandarin.
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The Key to Cracking Long-Dead Languages
Broken and scorched black by fire, the dense, wedge-shaped marks etched into the ancient clay tablets are only just visible under the soft light at the British...
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Quantum Computing Needs You to Help Solve Its Core Mystery
Since 2016, IBM has offered online access to a quantum computer. Anyone can log in and execute commands on a 5-qubit or 14-qubit machine located in Yorktown Heights...
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NASA's InSight Takes Its First Selfie
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie—a mosaic made up of 11 images.
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Inside Huawei's Secret HQ, China Is Shaping the Future
The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat...
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Finding Alien Life May Require Giant Telescopes Built in Orbit
After snapping the final piece into place with a satisfying "click" she feels through her spacesuit gloves, the astronaut pauses to appreciate the view.
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Xiaomi's AI Restores Details, Enhances Colors in Poorly Exposed Photos
Researchers at Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi have devised an artificial intelligence system that corrects details and colors in poorly exposed photos.
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Purdue Researchers Devise 3D Printer That Can Make Energetic Materials Safer
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional printing technique that fabricates energetic materials with fine geometric features faster and at less cost than...
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Europe's Influence Over .S. Tech Was More Formidable Than Ever in 2018
The influence of the biggest US tech companies is as powerful in Europe as anywhere else in the world. But what sets Europe apart is that the relationship is, to...
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