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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Reaches Sand Dunes
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall. The dunes are on the rover's trek up the lower portion...
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Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...
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For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly
At a NASA lab in Silicon Valley, Google is testing a quantum computer—a machine based on the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of things...
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A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities
Taking inspiration from the way humans seem to learn, scientists have created AI software capable of picking up new knowledge in a far more efficient and sophisticated...
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The Most Likely Spots for Life in the Milky Way
Our home galaxy isn't as hospitable to life as you might think.
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Americans Attracted to Isis Find an 'echo Chamber' on Social Media
When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to learn more, he found a virtual community awaiting...
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Baidu's Self-Driving Car Takes On Beijing Traffic
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...
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Why Memory and Mimicry Are The Next Big Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
For the last five years the effort to teach computers to think more like humans, to learn how to recognize speech and images on their own has been the goal of ...
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New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins
Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click
Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers...
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Here's What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
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Obama Appeals to Silicon Valley For Help with Online Anti-Extremist Campaign
President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan...
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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IBM to Develop Hardware to Wipe Out Errors in Quantum Computing
The race to build a full-blown quantum computer is heating up.
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Crispr Gene-Editing Gets Rules. Well, Guidelines, Really
If you're hoping to engineer perfect babies, you're going to have to wait.
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Japan's Venus Orbiter Makes Comeback
Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its first attempt failed.
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When Apps Talk Behind Your Back
A recent study found nearly 9% of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy.
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New Horizons Returns First, Best Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby—and the best close-ups of Pluto...
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