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Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?
Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and...
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How Disinformation and Distortions on Social Media Affected Elections Worldwide
Internet freedom is on the decline for the seventh consecutive year as governments around the world take to distorting information on social media in order to influence...
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CLA Engineers se Deep Learning to Reconstruct Holograms and Improve Optical Microscopy
Researchers have developed two new uses for machine learning--reconstructing a hologram to form a microscopic image of an object, and improving optical microscopy...
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Wpi Research Detects When Online Reviews and News Are a Paid-For Pack of Lies
New algorithms are designed to combat crowdturfing, in which masses of online workers are paid to post phony reviews, circulate malicious tweets, and spread fake...
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As Silicon Valley Gets 'crazy,' Midwest Beckons Tech Investors
They seem an odd couple. J. D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape...
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Exoplanet Hunters Rethink Search For Alien Life
Steve Desch can see the future of exoplanet research, and it's not pretty.
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New Software Can Pinpoint Hate Groups' Radicalization Sites
New software searches mainstream websites and the Dark Web to identify sites that contain terrorist ideologies that encourage people to cause harm.
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Multiplayer Video Games: Researchers Discover Link Between Skill and Intelligence
Researchers have found a connection between young people's ability to perform well at two popular video games, and high levels of intelligence.
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First-of-Its-Kind Bioengineered Robotic Hand to Sense Touch
Researchers are developing a bioengineered robotic hand that will grow and adapt to its environment, with its own peripheral nervous system linking to sensors and...
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Blockchain Gets a Wall Street Win: 'we Know the Thing Works Now'
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...
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Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'the System Is Failing'
The inventor of the World Wide Web remains an optimist but sees a 'nasty wind' blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news.
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Did Technology Kill the Truth?
The software algorithms that decide our news feed are programmed to prioritize user attention over truth to optimize for engagement, which means optimizing for...
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Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World
After the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, many people worry that technology has gone too far.
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Listening For Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from...
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Improving Clinical Trials With Machine Learning
Machine learning could improve the ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, and could enable researchers to detect drug effects missed by conventional...
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Robots Can Help S Better nderstand How Infants Learn
Johan Kwisthout of Radboud University in the Netherlands' discusses efforts to use robots to replicate the brains infants in order to better understand their learning...
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Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
A new deep-learning algorithm that evaluates chest x-rays for signs of disease and can outperform radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.
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The Power of AI in the Sky
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to sift massive amounts of big data in support of astronomy projects.
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CM Software Assembles Rna Transcripts More Accurately
Scallop is a new, more accurate computational method for reconstructing full-length nucleotide sequences of the RNA products in cells.
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