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Genevieve Bell: 'humanity's Greatest Fear Is About Being Irrelevant'
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
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Clemson Scientists nveil Software That Revolutionizes Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Modeling
Clemson University researchers have developed computational software for wildlife habitat connectivity modeling.
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Spy Chief Adds to Warnings of Russian Cyber Attacks on Germany
Germany's spy chief has warned that Russian hackers are pelting his country with disinformation that could undermine the democratic process, echoing concerns already...
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Google Deepmind Could Invent the Next Generation of AI By Playing Starcraft 2
The announcement at BlizzCon 2016 that met with the most muted response was arguably the most revolutionary.
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Two Sigma Announces Public Launch of Halite, A.i. Coding Game
Halite creates an engaging game environment in which to learn, write, and visualize code in action.
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Telescope That 'ate Astronomy' Is on Track to Surpass Hubble
The next great space telescope spread its golden wings this month.
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Programmers Are Having a Huge Discussion About the nethical and Illegal Things They've Been Asked to Do
A response to a post that went viral, called "Code I’m Still Ashamed Of."
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Indium Selenide Takes on the Mantle of the New Wonder Material
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester?
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Will AI sher in a New Era of Hacking?
Advanced artificial intelligence systems developed to defend assets in cyberspace might be turned to malevolent purposes by cybercriminals.
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Researchers Build Tool to Help Prevent 'selfie Deaths'
A growing number of people die every year while taking photos of themselves at dangerous locations, leading researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to look for...
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China's Secretive Space Program Threatens Nasa's Dominance
The launch of the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft in western China last month marked another great leap forward for the nation's space program and its ambition to send manned...
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Nasa Saturn Mission Prepares For 'ring-Grazing Orbits'
A thrilling ride is about to begin for NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Japan Plans Supercomputer to Leap Into Technology Future
Japan plans to build the world's fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country's manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop...
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Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt...
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Cracked, Frozen, and Tipped Over: New Clues From Pluto's Past
Sputnik Planitia, a 1,000-kilometer-wide basin within the iconic heart-shaped region observed on Pluto's surface, could be in its present location because accumulation...
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Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using...
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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam.
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Computers Learn to Recognize Molecules That Can Enter Cells
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign determined that a computer program they developed started to recognize features of peptides...
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