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Your Battery Status Is Being Used to Track You Online
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...
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Can Machines Keep S Safe from Cyber-Attack?
Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has more recently brought engineers together to tackle...
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Snapping p Cheap Spy Tools, Nations 'monitoring Everyone'
It was a national scandal. Peru's then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out.
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'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences
Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.
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Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed By Liquid Water
New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water.
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How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn't There
Our machines are littered with security holes, because programmers are human.
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Could Trashing Junk Proteins Quash Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Als and Huntington's?
Although clutter can be a nuisance, it does not typically pose a health threat—unless you're an aging neuron.
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Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays
Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful...
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Selfie Righteous: New Tool Corrects Angles and Distances in Portraits
A new tool can correct distortions in self-portrait photographs by making a subject's face appear as if it were photographed from a longer distance or a different...
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Australia Plans New Co-Ordinates to Fix Sat-Nav Gap
Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
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Planet Hunters Seek New Ways to Detect Alien Life
In the search for life beyond Earth, false alarms abound.
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Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.
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Baidu ses Millions of sers' Location Data to Make Predictions
Baidu, China's internet giant, has shown what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.
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Chinese Satellite Is One Giant Step For the Quantum Internet
China is poised to launch the world's first satellite designed to do quantum experiments. A fleet of quantum-enabled craft is likely to follow.
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Stitching a Drone's View of the World Into 3d Maps as It Flies
When you're buzzing through the air at 60 kilometres per hour, it can be hard to take in the view. But now drones can create highly detailed 3D maps as they fly...
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Rosetta Finale Set For 30 September
Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September.
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Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things
A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light...
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Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards
You should be able to trust your wireless keyboard.
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Consumers and 3D Printing: The Future
The market, currently dominated by professional and hobbyist makers, could be changing.
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