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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking...
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niverse Neither Confirms Nor Denies Its Holographic Nature
Cosmology is a funny kind of science.
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Researchers Develop Wearable, Low-Cost Sensor to Measure Skin Hydration
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a wearable, wireless sensor that can monitor a person's skin hydration.
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A New Approach to 3D Holographic Displays Greatly Improves the Image Quality
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say they have developed a three-dimensional holographic display whose performance tops that...
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In Not-Too-Distant Future, Brain Hackers Could Steal Your Deepest Secrets
In the beginning, people hacked phones.
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It's Never 'groundhog Day' at Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:57 a.m. PST (7:57 a.m. EST, 12:57 UTC).
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Astronomers Explore Uses For AI-Generated Images
Volcanoes, monasteries, birds, thistles: the varied images in Jeff Clune's research paper could be his holiday snaps.
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Researchers Develop Heat Driven Transistor
Researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden say they have developed a transistor controlled by a heat signal instead of an electrical signal.
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For the Next Election, Don't Recount the Vote. Encrypt It
Let's be honest: The 2016 election wasn’t a sterling display of American democracy.
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Study Reveals Substantial Evidence of Holographic niverse
A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram...
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Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?
Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.
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Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
Four of the best professional poker players in the world spent most of January holed up at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, losing.
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Google's Go-Playing Machine Opens the Door to Robots that Learn
Two robotic arms face two closed doors. Both reach forward and miss the door handles entirely.
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Close Views Show Saturn's Rings in nprecedented Detail
Newly released images showcase the incredible closeness with which NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, is observing Saturn's dazzling...
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Vanishing Point: The Rise of the Invisible Computer
Experts agree the steady advances of computer chip transistor shrinkage--faster chip speeds, greater efficiency, and less-expensive manufacturing--will soon reach...
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I Can See Clearly Now
University of Utah researchers have created "smart glasses" with liquid-based lenses that can automatically adjust focus on what a person is seeing, whether it...
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Quantum Computers Versus Hackers, Round One. Fight!
This week D-Wave, a leader in the nascent field of quantum computing, unveiled its latest machine, D-Wave 2000Q, as well as its first customer: a cybersecurity...
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A New Test For Life on Other Planets
A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets.
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China Can Help Drive Global Progress in Quantum Computing
2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Andrew Chi-Chih Yao says China could potentially take a global lead in quantum computing innovation.
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