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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
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Algorithms Compete to Predict Recipe For Cancer Vaccine
Could predictive algorithms be the key to creating a successful cancer vaccine?
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Did the Russians 'hack' the Election? A Look at the Established Facts
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...
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Nasa Juno Mission Prepares For December 11 Jupiter Flyby
On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.
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In Memoriam: Andrew Birrell 1951-2016
He specialized in "in the general area of operating systems and distributed systems, with occasional excursions into security."
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Graphene-Spiked Silly Putty Picks p Human Pulse
A dash of graphene can transform the stretchy goo known as Silly Putty into a pressure sensor able to monitor a human pulse or even track the dainty steps of a...
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Microsoft, Code.org Target Beginner Coders With Minecraft Program
Microsoft and Code.org have released a new tutorial for Hour of Code, an annual campaign held during Computer Science Education Week to encourage more students...
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Inside the Big Dish that Brought US Tv from the Moon
The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most elegant scientific instruments ever built.
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Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find
There may never be enough hours in the day to get everything done, but at least the forces of nature are conspiring to help out.
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Design Your Own Custom Drone
Researchers have developed a way for consumers to design and develop drones to meet their unique specifications.
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Lazy Coders Are Training Artificial Intelligences to Be Sexist
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
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A Year After San Bernardino and Apple-Fbi, Where Are We on Encryption?
The debate over encryption and government access to secured communications dates decades back.
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Spinoff 2017: Nasa Tech Makes a Difference on Earth
NASA has released its Spinoff 2017 publication, which takes a close look at 50 different companies that are using NASA technology—innovations developed by NASA,...
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CRISPR Heavyweights Battle in US Patent Court
It was a tough day in US patent court for the University of California, Berkeley.
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Safer, Less Vulnerable Software Is the Goal of New Nist Computer Publication
The strategies compiled in a new U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication can lead to software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities...
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Pizzagate: From Rumor, to Hashtag, to Gunfire in D.c.
What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden in mysterious tunnels...
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Google, Democracy and the Truth About Internet Search
Here's what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That's all I did.
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