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'faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out...
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Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable For Billions of Years
Venus is—without a doubt—Earth's toxic sibling.
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Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.
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Carnegie Mellon niversity Team Behind Smartphone, Tablet App For Blind
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a text-to-speech mobile application designed for use on the Indian subcontinent.
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The Bandwidth Bottleneck that Is Throttling the Internet
On 19 June, several hundred thousand US fans of the television drama Game of Thrones went online to watch an eagerly awaited episode—and triggered a partial failure...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...
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Cyborg Stingray Swims Toward Light, Breaks New Ground
The idea of taking apart a rat's heart and transforming it into a tissue-engineered stingray first came to Kevin Kit Parker during a trip to the New England Aquarium...
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Where in the World Is My Data and How Secure Is It?
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222...
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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.
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How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly...
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes
A five-year, $1.5-million award will enable Duke University professor Ingrid Daubechies to expand her collaborative research involving mathematics and electrical...
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Troll Hunters: The Twitterbots That Fight Against Online Abuse
Researchers are working to automate the detection of harassment, but one says humans do not agree on what constitutes harassment.
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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