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What Would Happen If Aliens Contacted Earth?
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.
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Dna Tags Help the Hunt For Drugs
Nestled in a plastic box, in an ordinary laboratory freezer on the second floor of a concrete building in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a clear test tube that contains...
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Software Can Identify You By the Way You Walk in Cctv Footage
Computer scientists in the Czech Republic have developed software designed to work with closed-circuit TV footage that can identify people based on the way they...
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Does Apple Win Even If It Loses?
It is a battle for public opinion almost as much as it is for the law.
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Tiny, Blurry Pictures Find the Limits of Computer Image Recognition
Computers have started to get really good at visual recognition.
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Nasa Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the niverse
After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe—the Wide Field Infrared...
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Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect Security
It took six years for Apple to persuade China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, to sell the iPhone.
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Digital Baby Project's Aim: Computers That See Like Humans
A cognitive psychology experiment has revealed differences in how humans and computers see images, says Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shimon Ullman.
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White House Wants to Train K-12 Students to Be Nation's Future Cyber Defense
A $4-billion effort encouraging U.S. public schools to offer computer science courses is part of a longer-term effort to fill the shortage of federal cyber experts...
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Apple's Fbi Battle Is Complicated. Here's What's Really Going On
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...
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Pluto's 'hulk-Like' Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?
Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin.
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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Encryption Isn't at Stake, the Fbi Knows Apple Already Has the Desired Key
Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed...
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The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence
In 2012 the world learned of a surprising research project inside Google's secretive X lab.
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Four Big Cosmology Secrets Gravitational Waves Could ncover
On 11 February, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatory, or LIGO, announced it had spotted gravitational waves, the stretching and squeezing of...
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Evidence Mounts For Interbreeding Bonanza in Ancient Human Species
The discovery of yet another period of interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals is adding to the growing sense that sexual encounters among different...
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How the Open Compute Project's Telco Project Could Transform the Iot, Driverless Cars
The Open Compute Project recently announced the Telco Project, which is focused on data center technologies for telecommunications companies.
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His Work Opens Computer Science to the Blind
University of Nevada-Las Vegas professor Andreas Stefik spent 10 years developing Quorum, a programming language designed for visually impaired people.
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Scaanalyzer: An Award-Winning Tool to Find Computing Bottlenecks
ScaAnalyzer is a new tool that can find elusive bugs in software and enable computers to run faster and more efficiently.
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