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Team Begins Powering Up Science Instruments
The engineers and scientists working on NASA's Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting their newly arrived Jupiter orbiter ready for operations around...
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene
Researchers are determining the differences between human minds and artificial intelligence-based machines by mapping human and AI visual attention.
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...
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Mars Canyons Study Adds Clues About Possible Water
Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet's largest...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...
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Putin Signs New Anti-Terror Law in Russia. Edward Snowden Is pset.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed into law a controversial package of counterterrorism measures, including tougher sentences for extremism and...
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How Juno Will Peer Deep Below Jupiter's Roiling Clouds
When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer...
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Control Your Smartphone with Your Eyes
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...
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Machine Learning Method Differentiates Between Healthy Male, Female Microbiomes
Researchers have used Topological Data Analysis as an unsupervised learning and data exploration tool to identify changes in microbial states.
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Video Privacy Tool Lets You Select What Others See
Researchers at Duke University have developed software that enables users to specify what others can see when sharing images captured by camera-equipped devices...
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Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks
For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable...
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How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.
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The Toughest Spaceship We've Ever Built
It's been a long time since anyone tried landing on Venus,
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Nasa Rover's Sand-Dune Studies Yield Surprise
Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about...
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Iot Transforming Taiwan's Tech Sector
As desktop and laptop computer sales recede, hardware-proud Taiwan searches for new directions in the Internet of Things.
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Grade-School Students Teach a Robot to Help Themselves Learn Geometry
Researchers say they have developed educational technology, incorporating teachable agent framing coupled with a physical robotic agent, that could better engage...
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The Juno Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
NASA has a habit of scheduling high-stakes maneuvers to coincide with patriotic holidays.
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se Your Eyes, Voice—and Thoughts—to Replace Passwords
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and...
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