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Mobile Phone Records Reveal Largest Gathering in the History of Humanity
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.
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Researchers ncover a Flaw in Europe's Tough Privacy Rules
Europe likes to think it leads the world in protecting people’s privacy, and that is particularly true for the region’s so-called right to be forgotten.
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CRISPR Gene-Editing System nleashed on RNA
Researchers who discovered a molecular "scissors" for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA.
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Fifty Years of Moon Dust: Surveyor 1 Was a Pathfinder For Apollo
Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots.
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Bill Gates Claims 'ai Dream Is Finally Arriving'--and Says Machines Will Outsmart Humans in Some Areas Within a Decade
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the progress of artificial intelligence ensures machines will be able to outclass humans in certain knowledge areas within...
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...
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Pc Hardware Is Physically Leaking Your Encryption Keys
Your computer has an aura. That sentence causes me actual physical pain to type, but there's not really a better way to put it—whether you're surfing really fucked...
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How Ad Blockers Have Triggered an Arms Race on the Web
A team at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has conducted the first large-scale analysis of ad-block detection on the Internet.
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IBM Watson's Creative Director on Amazon Echo and How AI Can Save Lives
In an interview, Maya Weinstein, creative director at IBM Watson, discusses artificial intelligence assistants and how the technology can help save lives.
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Pluto's Heart: Like a Cosmic 'lava Lamp'
Combining computer models with topographic and compositional data gathered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last summer, New Horizons team members have determined...
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This 'demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip
Security flaws in software can be tough to find. Purposefully planted ones—hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs—are often even stealthier.
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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Study of 1 Million Sites Shows Just How Closely We're Watched
The web is watching you. Chunks of code hide inside every website, tracking your online behaviour.
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Child's Play: Australia's Newest Roboticists See Eye-to-Eye With R2-D2
Queensland University of Technology's Christina Chalmers says because the growth of robotic coding requires educators to do more to promote student education in...
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'super Mario Brothers' Is Hard
Researchers found the problem of solving a level in the "Super Mario Brothers" video game is as challenging as the most vexing problems in the PSPACE complexity...
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Tech Turns to Biology as Data Storage Needs Explode
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists...
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Rosetta's Comet Contains Ingredients For Life
Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two...
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Nasa Radar Finds Ice Age Record in Mars' Polar Cap
Scientists using radar data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age recorded in the planet's north...
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