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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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Stanford Researchers Develop Technique to See Objects Hidden Around Corners
Stanford University researchers have developed laser-based imaging technology that can produce images of objects hidden from view around corners.
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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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Mining Hardware Helps Scientists Gain Insight Into Silicon Nanoparticles
Researchers have developed the first three-dimensional dynamic model of an interaction between light and silicon nanoparticles.
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Taking Radio Astronomy to the Next Level
After its latest upgrade, a radio telescope in Westerbork, the Netherlands, generates 3.7 terabits of data per second, an enormous data-stream that must be processed...
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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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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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Supercomputing nder a New Lens: A Sandia-Developed Benchmark Re-Ranks Top Computers
Sandia National Laboratories' High-Performance Conjugate Gradients benchmarking software program is gaining prominence as a tool for ranking supercomputer performance...
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Hackers' Delight: Does Quantum Computing Spell the End for Encryption?
Today's stalwart encryption methods used to send data securely over the Internet are expected to be no match for the power of tomorrow's quantum computers.
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Virtual Reality Prepares Business Students for Digital Leadership
The ESMT Berlin business school is using virtual reality to teach leadership in a digital world to executives from some of Germany’s biggest companies.
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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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Jumping Spiders and Flying Bees: The Rise of Bio-Inspired Microrobots
University of Manchester researchers are developing jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees.
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Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS
Earth got a warning shot on January 25, 2016. On that day, Air Force engineers were scheduled to kill off a GPS satellite named SVN-23—the oldest in the navigation...
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