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The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem
A recent report calculated that the global electricity consumption of bitcoin mining would exceed that of the U.S. by July 2019, and of the entire world by November...
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Error-Free Into the Quantum Computer Age
Researchers at Swansea University in Wales, U.K., led an international team in demonstrating that conventional ion-trap technologies are suitable for building large...
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Researchers se Wwii Code-Breaking Techniques to Interpret Brain Data
Researchers have applied cryptanalysis methods dating from the second World War to decode motor neuron activity and interpret brain data in monkeys.
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Engineers Program Tiny Robots to Move, Think Like Insects
Researchers are studying a new type of programming that mimics an insect's brain functions.
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Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
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The Evolution of Trust in a Digital Economy
To participate in today's global economy, ordinary people must accept an asymmetrical bargain: their lives are transparent to states, banks and corporations, whereas...
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Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...
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People Don't Trust Driverless Cars. Researchers Are Trying to Change That
Industrial and academic researchers are attempting to overcome consumers' distrust of autonomous vehicles.
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How to Find the Truth on Twitter
Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate whether an event reported on Twitter is a likely witness account.
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How the Loss of Net Neutrality Could Change the Internet
The repeal of net neutrality ushers in a new chapter of the internet that could eventually transform the way Americans communicate, shop and consume information...
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Unprecedented Malware Targets Industrial Safety Systems in the Middle East
Since Stuxnet first targeted and destroyed uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran last decade, the cybersecurity world has waited for the next step in that digital...
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Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
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New Mapping Technique Can Help Fight Extreme Poverty
Researchers say they have developed a new way to create poverty maps by using computational tools such as cellphone records, data from satellites, and geographic...
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How Implants Powered By Ultrasound Can Help Monitor Health
Researchers have unveiled small implants designed for disease diagnosis and treatment by using ultrasound to safely beam both energy and instructions.
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Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers to Help Alleviate rban Traffic Problems
Researchers are working to develop tools enabling searchable traffic analyses using deep learning and data mining.
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AI Researchers Are Trying to Combat How AI Can Be sed to Lie and Deceive
Artificial intelligence researchers gathered last week to discuss measures against the technology's use for deceit and disinformation.
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Estonia, the Digital Republic
Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with the path of the sea, then breaks inland, leaving cars to follow a thin road toward the houses at the water's...
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Nasa's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below...
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Seeing Through Walls of nknown Materials
A new technique exploits a wall's symmetry to see through it using a narrow band of microwave frequencies without any advance knowledge of the material making up...
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