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How Microsoft Conjured p Real-Life Star Wars Holograms
In holoportation, a live hologram of a person is projected into another room for real-time interaction with whomever is present.
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Rescued Japanese Spacecraft Delivers First Results from Venus
After an unplanned five-year detour, Japan's Venus probe, Akatsuki, has come back to life with a bang.
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First Came the Breathalyzer, Now Meet the Roadside Police 'textalyzer'
We're all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver's blood-alcohol level.
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Billing by Millionths of Pennies, Cloud Computing's Giants Take In Billions
Imagine building an enormous beach resort, maybe the best in the world.
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The Tremendous Ambitions Behind New York City's Free Wifi
At this very moment in New York City, you can walk up to one of 65 futuristic kiosks, punch in an email address on your phone and instantly receive a wireless Internet...
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Graphene Filter Could Make Wireless Data Transmission 10 Times Faster
Swiss researchers have developed a graphene filter for microchips that could lead to wireless transmission rates 10 times as fast as what chips deliver today.
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Why Our Crazy-Smart AI Still Sucks at Transcribing Speech
The task of providing accurate transcriptions of long blocks of human conversation remains beyond the abilities of even today's most advanced software.
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it.
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Dear Silicon Valley: The Pentagon Has Sent You a Friend Request
When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter first spoke about the Pentagon's startup in Silicon Valley, the former Harvard physicist said he had great expectations.
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Measurement of Universe's Expansion Rate Creates Cosmological Puzzle
The most precise measurement ever made of the current rate of expansion of the Universe has produced a value that appears incompatible with measurements of radiation...
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Italians, Helped By an App, Translate the Talmud
The first Italian translation of the Babylonian Talmud has been completed after five years of work by scholars, linguists, philologists, editors, and computer scientists...
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A Fleet of Self-Driving Trucks Rumbles Across Europe
A fleet of about 12 self-driving trucks from six manufacturers for the first time completed a trip across parts of Europe this week.
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Kepler Spacecraft in Emergency Mode
During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). EM is the lowest...
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Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds
Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed "exoplanets."
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Hiv Overcomes Crispr Gene-Editing Attack
HIV can defeat efforts to cripple it with CRISPR gene-editing technology, researchers say. And the very act of editing—involving snipping at the virus’s genome—may...
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The Robot Will See You Now: U of T Experts on the Revolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The University of Toronto hosted a panel discussion Tuesday on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
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The Detectives Watching You from Space
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...
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Mysterious Gravitational Tug on Orbiter May Help Find Planet Nine
The hunt is on to find "Planet Nine"—a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size—that scientists think could be lurking...
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Apps Help People with Autism Speak
Smartphones and tablets make it easier for people with disabilities to communicate, and for others to communicate with them.
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