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Good News—the Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All
New data shows that the majority of robot-enabled scam phone calls came from fewer than 40 call centers, a finding that offers hope the growing menace of robocalls...
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Hopes For Revolutionary New Lhc Particle Dashed
It would have been bigger than finding the Higgs boson and marked the beginning of a new era in particle physics.
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Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage For General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Researchers have introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module.
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Dot-Drawing With Drones
Researchers at McGill University are developing tiny drones to create dot drawings, an artistic technique known as stippling.
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Toyota Teaches Cars to Drive By Studying Human Drivers
The development of autonomous-driving capabilities and home-care robots are areas the recently created Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is exploring.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
Vance Bergeron was once an amateur cyclist who rode 7,000 kilometres per year—much of it on steep climbs in the Alps.
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Crystal Mimics Brain Cell to Sift Through Giant Piles of Data
There's nothing quite like the human brain. Today, researchers at IBM unveiled their latest attempt to mimic it: an artificial neuron that switches between crystal...
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What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner...
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New Robot Overcomes Obstacles
Researchers at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have developed Ourobot, a robotic system that looks like a bicycle chain consisting of 12 fist-sized segments...
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Google's Driverless-Car Czar on Taking the Human Out of the Equation
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...
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Frequent Password Changes Are the Enemy of Security, Ftc Technologist Says
Shortly after Carnegie Mellon University professor Lorrie Cranor became chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission in January, she was surprised by an ...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage for General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical...
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Vortex Laser Offers Hope For Moore's Law
Researchers have used orbital angular momentum to advance laser technology, a breakthrough that could boost computing power and information transfer rates tenfold...
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Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck's Accelerator and Brakes
When cybersecurity researchers showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles' brakes or hijack their steering...
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