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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Emerged from the Freezer
After spending three months at a temperature of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero, the massive James Webb Space Telescope emerged from a large vacuum...
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Geocarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas
A new NASA Earth science mission in the early stages of design may achieve a transformational advance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by mapping...
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Exascale a 'main Priority' For Doe
Exascale computing is a priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, which last year alloted $258 million to research the hardware, software, and applications needed...
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Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse.
Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.
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How to See a Memory
For someone who's not a Sherlock superfan, cognitive neuroscientist Janice Chen knows the BBC's hit detective drama better than most.
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Nasa Test Proves Pulsars Can Function as a Celestial Gps
From its perch aboard the International Space Station, a NASA experiment has shown how future missions might navigate their way through deep space.
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Developing a Secure, n-Hackable Net
A team of researchers say they have developed a technique of securely communicating among three or more quantum devices, regardless of who made them.
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Making the Internet of Things Possible With a New Breed of 'memristors'
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland say they have designed and fabricated the building blocks of future components for neuromorphic computers.
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New Discovery Could Improve Brain-Like Memory and Computing
Researchers say they have demonstrated the existence of a new type of magnetoresistance involving topological insulators that could improve computing and computer...
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...
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Silicon Gains Ground in Quantum-Computing Race
In the next few weeks, a research group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands expects to receive an important package. Its contents promise to...
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Ornl Researchers se Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep-Learning Networks
Combining artificial intelligence with high-performance computing yielded a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the creation and training of deep-learning networks on...
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When Wi-Fi Won't Work, Let Sound Carry Your Data
If you've ever struggled to pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or set up a wireless printer, you know that it's often easier to connect to a server halfway...
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Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers
Hundreds of gadget makers and software companies at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas are staking the success of their newest products...
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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With the Summit Supercomputer, U.s. could Retake Computing's Top spot
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 .s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...
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Fbi Chief Calls nbreakable Encryption 'urgent Public Safety Issue'
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety issue," FBI Director...
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