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Senate Intel: Russia Waged 'nprecedented' Cyber Campaign on .S. Voting Systems
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyberattacks on digital U.S. voting systems ahead...
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Spying on a Storm's Infrasonic Signals to Improve Tornado Warnings
Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...
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The Milky Way's Speediest Stars Could Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery
Ken Shen was racing against the sun.
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Particle Physicists Turn to AI to Cope with CERN's Collision Deluge
Physicists at the world's leading atom smasher are calling for help. In the next decade, they plan to produce up to 20 times more particle collisions in the Large...
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Sessions: Congress May Need to 'Take Action' on Encryption
Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated in a Monday speech that Congress may ultimately have to wade into the debate about federal law enforcement agencies unlocking encrypted...
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Custom Silicon Microparticles Dynamically Reconfigure on Demand
Researchers have demonstrated custom semiconductor microparticles that can be manipulated into various configurations repeatedly while suspended in water.
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A Surprising New Superconductor
Researchers have developed a process for producing an ultrathin layer of rhenium sandwiched between gold layers that can superconduct at temperatures higher than...
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Driverless Car Startup Drive.ai Launching Ride-hailing Service in Texas
From day one, Drive.ai has positioned itself as the driverless car company that thinks most about human-technology interactions.
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Water Filter Inspired by Alan Turing Passes First Test
Researchers in China have developed a filter that removes salt from water up to three times as fast as conventional filters. The membrane has a unique nanostructure...
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...
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The Unhackable Envelope
Researchers have developed an envelope for hardware security modules that requires no battery and cannot be broken into without deleting its stored data.
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Editing Memories and Sensations in the Brain With Tech
What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?
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GRACE-FO: Cracking a Cold Case
Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels—as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly...
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What's Behind Russia's New Internet Crackdown
China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade.
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Scholar ses Algorithm to Make Christmas Tree Farming More Efficient
A Penn State University researcher has developed an algorithm to analyze and store images of Christmas tree farms taken by unmanned aircraft.
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New Material Is Key Step Toward More Powerful Computing
Oregon State University researchers have developed a compound that constitutes a significant advance toward quantum computing.
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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There's a New Test in Town for Ranking Supercomputers
Researchers have devised a new benchmark for rating the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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