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Rosetta's Miro Instrument Maps Comet Water
Since last September, scientists using NASA's Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have generated maps...
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Face Recognition Row Over Right to Identify You in the Street
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"
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The Surreal Dreams of Google's Image Recognition Software
Image recognition is a complicated business. For Google, that means an artificial neural network—software capable of learning.
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Injectable Implants Could Help Crack the Brain's Codes
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.
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Ancient American Genome Rekindles Legal Row
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for...
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Eight Spacecraft that Have Been Rescued, Resurrected, and Repurposed
Earlier this week, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander finally woke up after a seven-month snooze.
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
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Shock European Court Decision: Websites Are Liable For sers' Comments
In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...
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Dissolving Titan
Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s...
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Who Will Own the Robots?
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative."
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Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition
A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share their most sensitive personal details has run...
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Argonne Scientists Announce First Room-Temperature Magnetic Skyrmion Bubbles
Researchers have developed a method for creating magnetic skyrmion bubbles at room temperature.
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Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon's surface.
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Newly Discovered Property Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips
Researchers observed an exotic property that could alter the electronic structure of a material to reduce heat buildup and improve performance in computer components...
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Rosetta's Lander Philae Wakes p from Hibernation
Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal.
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past.
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The Quest to Find Philae
While Rosetta continues to study the ever-changing comet from a distance, the mission teams have been trying to narrow down the location of Philae on the comet...
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How Will the Universe End, and Could Anything Survive?
Don't panic, but our planet is doomed. It's just going to take a while.
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Fast and Accurate Synchronization in the 'blink' of an Eye
Researchers at the University of Southern California have experimentally demonstrated the first wireless network synchronized to a billionth of a second.
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