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Nasa Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover
After avoiding use of the rover's flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA's 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle's...
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k Mapped Out By Genetic Ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...
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Stealing Data from Computers sing Heat
Air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the Internet and are not connected to other systems that are connected to the Internet, are used in situations that...
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Doing Astronomy with Neutrinos
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was
On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was almost unspeakably gorgeous—mild as a warm bath,...
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High-Resolution 3D Scans Built From Drone Photos
Drones offer an inexpensive way to capture three-dimensional scans of buildings, terrain, and other objects.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Atlas of Thoughts
Aarhus University researchers are using computer games to help them tackle some of the fundamental problems of quantum computing.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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How the Dark Web Spurs a Spying 'arms Race'
It's a technological arms race, pure and simple.
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Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last August, then dropped a lander onto the comet in November. Now...
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What Your Tweets Say About You
How much can your tweets reveal about you? Judging by the last nine hundred and seventy-two words that I used on Twitter, I'm about average when it comes to feeling...
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.s. Must Step p Capacity For Cyberattacks, Chief Argues
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command advocated development of cyberweapons as a means of deterring cyberattacks.
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Ted 2015: Google Boss Wants Self-Drive Cars 'for Son'
The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years.
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Apple's Haptic Touch Makes Way for Tomorrow's Touchable Is
If you're into magic tricks, stop by an Apple Store and park yourself in front of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro. Click around on the trackpad for a while. Voila!
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Shrill? To N.c.a.a. Tournament Referees, It's Symphonic
Susan Mueller, a flutist and the chairwoman of the Nevada-Las Vegas music department, examined the referee's whistle in her hand.
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Edward Snowden Would Like to Explain Himself to a Jury, but He Can't
Edward Snowden wants to come home.
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Society stands at a crossroads of artificial intelligence: We can design computers that sharpen our wits or we can let our machines turn us into ignoramuses.
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