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Extreme Access Flyer to Take Planetary Exploration Airborne
Swamp Works engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are inventing a flying robotic vehicle that can gather samples on other worlds in places inaccessible...
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Why the Ftc Is Showing p at Hackers' Biggest Conferences
The Federal Trade Commission, the de facto federal watchdog for consumers' privacy and data security, knows it needs help.
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This Hacker's Tiny Device nlocks Cars and Opens Garages
The next time you press your wireless key fob to unlock your car, if you find that it doesn’t beep until the second try, the issue may not be a technical glitch...
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Teaching Machines to nderstand S
The first time Yann LeCun revolutionized artificial intelligence, it was a false dawn.
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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object...
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New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation
On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Redjourney...
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Xsede Panel Highlights Diversity of Nsf Computing Resources
A panel at the XSEDE15 conference highlighted the broad spectrum of computing resources the U.S. National Science Foundation has made available in recent years. ...
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U.s. Researchers Show Computers Can Be Hijacked to Send Data As Sound Waves
A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send...
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Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are racing to anticipate the needs of their users.
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The Computing Power Behind the Large Hadron Collider
CERN project manager Bob Jones recently discussed the Large Hadron Collider's massive supporting computing infrastructure.
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From a Million Miles Away, Nasa Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last...
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Cyber Attack: How Easy Is It to Take Out a Smart City?
When is a smart city not so smart?
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Welcome to the Metaverse
Ebbe Altberg needs about a paragraph to define human life: "What humans do is create spaces," the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table...
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5 Mobile Technologies Help Level the Playing Field For People with Disabilities
Mobile devices have become incredibly popular for their ability to weave modern conveniences such as Internet access and social networking into the fabric of daily...
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How Baseball's Tech Team Built the Future of Television
It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet. It was close to midnight, but five...
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Caution rged Over Editing Dna in Wildlife (intentionally or Not)
"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.
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For Mobile Messaging, GIFs Prove to Be Worth at Least a Thousand Words
Lucy Dikeou, a 21-year-old senior at Stanford University, has long used English and the pictorial images known as emoji to text on her iPhone.
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Facing Islamic State Threat, Iraq Digitizes National Library
The dimly lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and...
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What a Comet Looks Like … From 9 Meters Away!
The European Space Agency has just released some fantastic close-up images taken by the Philae lander of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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