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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her...
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Nustar Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.
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Sharing Secrets (without Giving Them Away)
Secure multiparty computation protects privacy while sharing vital data.
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How Russian Trolls Lie Their Way to the Top of Your News Feed
Going viral used to be harmless.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams of Data
Researchers have created a near-perfect streaming algorithm that operates by recalling only enough of what it has seen to relate what it has observed most often...
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What Virtual Reality Can Teach a Driverless Car
Major companies are testing autonomous car software within virtual reality simulations of cities.
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Women and Robots, 'there's Just No Trust'
Researchers found women were much less likely than men to trust humanoid machines.
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Small Asteroid or Comet 'visits' from Beyond the Solar System
A small, recently discovered asteroid—or perhaps a comet&mdsah;appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy...
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Alan Turing: How His niversal Machine Became a Musical Instrument
Alan Turing is one of the great pioneers of the digital age, establishing the mathematical foundations of computing and using electromechanical digital machines...
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Secure Payment Without Leaving a Trace
Researchers in Germany have developed a secure system for making online payments that that works anonymously and prevents misuse.
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Twitter Bans Russian Government-Owned News Sites Rt and Sputnik from Buying Ads
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
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Inspired By Brain's Visual Cortex, New AI tterly Wrecks Captcha Security
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...
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Crispr Hacks Enable Pinpoint Repairs to Genome
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...
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Researchers Demonstrate 'mind-Reading' Brain-Decoding Tech
Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for decoding what the brain is seeing.
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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These Neurons Are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them in 3-D
For patients with epilepsy, or cancerous brain lesions, sometimes the only way to forward is down.
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Bloated Browser Functionality Presents nnecessary Security, Privacy Risks
Researchers have identified browser functionalities that are rarely used or needed by Websites, but which pose security and privacy risks.
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