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Google Thinks It's Close to 'Quantum Supremacy.' Here's What That Really Means.
Seventy-two may not be a large number, but in quantum computing terms, it's massive.
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The New .S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race
As the United States and China look to protect their national security needs and economic interests, the fight between the two financial superpowers is increasingly...
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The Key to the Perfect March Madness Bracket: Evolution
Predicting the winners and losers of March Madness is such a daunting challenge that it attracts math nerds like Starfleet voyagers lining up at Comic-Con.
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Newer Horizons: Scientist Pitch Pluto Probe as a nique Deep-Space Telescope
A maverick group of astronomers is proposing to radically reshape one of NASA's most successful missions in the modern era, the New Horizons probe that flew by...
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China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
Tech companies are rushing to infuse everything with artificial intelligence, driven by big leaps in the power of machine learning software. But the deep-neural...
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Demand for Programmers Hits Full Boil as .S. Job Market Simmers
Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to...
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It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.
What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...
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Neuron Creation in Brain's Memory Centre Stops After Childhood
Every day, the human hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, creates hundreds of new nerve cells—or so scientists thought.
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NASA Juno finds Jupiter's Jet-Streams Are nearthly
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar...
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Does a Quantum Equation Govern Some of the niverse's Large Structures?
Researchers who want to predict the behavior of systems governed by quantum mechanics—an electron in an atom, say, or a photon of light traveling through space—typically...
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FBI Chief Signals Need to nderstand Potential Threats Tied to Cryptocurrency
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday said the bureau must be prepared to confront a new set of emerging cyber threats.
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Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn
Machines are starting to learn tasks on their own. They are identifying faces, recognizing spoken words, reading medical scans and even carrying on their own conversations...
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Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
You can't see the bunny, but the picosecond laser certainly can.
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Latest S Weather Satellite Highlights Forecasting Challenges
The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather-forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on 1 March. The craft will enable...
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JILA Team Invents New Way to 'See' the Quantum World
A new imaging technique produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock as visual art.
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AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People
There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by hundreds of thousands of real people.
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The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches
I usually write in Google's online word processor Google Docs, even when noting the company's shortcomings.
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These Provocative Images Show Russian Trolls Sought to Inflame Debate Over Climate Change, Fracking and Dakota Pipeline
Russian trolls used Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to inflame U.S. political debate over energy policy and climate change, a finding that underscores how the Russian...
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