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They Promised S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.
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Error Fix For Long-Lived Qubits Brings Quantum Computers Nearer
Researchers at Yale University have achieved a 20-fold increase in quantum bit lifetime.
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Microsoft's President Explains the Company's Quiet Legal War For ser Privacy
Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft....
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Nasa Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer—the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of...
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Chinese Scientists to Pioneer First Human Crispr Trial
Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique.
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X Marks the Spot For Milky Way Formation
A new understanding of our galaxy's structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter. A research effort sparked by tweets led scientists to confirm that the Milky...
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Baidu ses Millions of sers' Location Data to Make Predictions
Baidu, China's internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.
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Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your Iphone's Radios Are Snitching
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA's secrets, he famously asked them put their phones in the fridge to block any...
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Scientists Program Cells to Remember and Respond to Series of Stimuli
Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in...
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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Minecraft Is a Testing Ground For Human-AI Collaboration
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.
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How Mountains Obscured By Venus's Clouds Reveal Themselves
Colossal clouds cloak the surface of Venus, making it difficult for researchers to probe its secrets.
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Human Brain Mapped in nprecedented Detail
Think of a spinning globe and the patchwork of countries it depicts: such maps help us to understand where we are, and that nations differ from one another.
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Nasa's Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.
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Learning to Trust a Self-Driving Car
On a clear morning in early May, Brian Lathrop, a senior engineer for Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory, was in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S...
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Having Stomach Troubles? Try Swallowing an Origami Robot
Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.
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ser-Controlled System Makes It Possible to Instantly Revoke Access to Files Hosted on Internet Cloud Servers
Access to cloud-hosted data can be controlled in real time by securing data files with a proxy key.
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The Secret History of X-Ray Specs
"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was...
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