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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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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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Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs
Researchers discovered Mac computers can be affected by known firmware bugs, and created a proof-of-concept worm.
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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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Which Programming Languages Get sed Most at Hackathons?
ChallengePost recently released data on a range of topics from about 160 hackathons with nearly 10,000 projects by 13,281 hackers over the past year.
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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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A Programming Language For Robot Swarms
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal researchers have developed a programming language designed to govern the movements of heterogeneous robot swarms.
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Military Robots: Armed, But How Dangerous?
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...
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Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field Just Got a Lot Older
Earth developed a magnetic field at least four billion years ago, the latest research shows—more than half a billion years earlier than thought.
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China to Restrict Drone, Supercomputer Exports
China will restrict the export of drones and supercomputers from Aug. 15 to help protect national security out of fears such equipment could fall into the hands...
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cf-Developed Software Analyzes Fat in Seconds
New computer-vision techniques can give doctors a more complete analysis of fat than images alone.
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Flying Robots That Can See
A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while...
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Crumb of Mouse Brain Reconstructed in Full Detail
Six years might seem like a long time to spend piecing together the structure of a scrap of tissue vastly smaller than a bead of sweat.
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