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Confused About Those Emergency Cellphone Alerts? Here's How They Work.
Many New York-area commuters on Monday were interrupted by this alert on their cellphones: "WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male. See media for pic. Call 9...
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How Police Trace Cellphones in Ieds Like the Ones in Nyc
A cellphone makes a convenient detonator for an improvised explosive device. But it's also one of the most conveniently trackable devices under the eye of American...
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Human Brain Map Gets a Bold New Update
Most of us think little of hopping on Google Maps to look at everything from a bird's-eye view of an entire continent to an on-the-ground view of a specific street...
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A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can't Do It All Yet
Jitendra Malik, a researcher in computer vision for three decades, doesn't own a Tesla, but he has advice for people who do.
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Wireless Alerts Sound For Nyc Bombing Suspect
New Yorkers' morning commute was interrupted this morning by a chorus of emergency alerts, part of a manhunt for bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami.
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How the Fbi Could Have Hacked the San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone
More than six months have passed since the FBI first ordered Apple to help the agency bypass the encryption on the iPhone 5c of Rizwan Syed Farook, an ISIS supporter...
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Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage.
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Engineers Teach Machines to Recognize Tree Species
A new method developed by engineers from the California Institute of Technology has the potential to change the way urban forests are surveyed.
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Congressional Report Slams Nsa Leaker Edward Snowden
A House intelligence committee report issued Thursday condemned Edward Snowden, saying the National Security Agency leaker is not a whistleblower and that the vast...
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Humans Do Dumb Things with Smart Cities
New York City wants to make Wi-Fi available to anyone who walks its streets. But Gotham is finding out the hard way that free and open Internet access is ripe for...
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Brain-Sensing Technology Allows Typing at 12 Words Per Minute
It does not take an infinite number of monkeys to type a passage of Shakespeare.
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Researchers Hope to Make Phone Batteries Last Longer
A team of researchers is investigating how common techniques used by programmers might be inadvertently contributing to the battery drain of smart phones.
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Detailed Map Shows Milky Way Is Bigger Than We Thought
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the largest, most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. It pinpoints the 3D positions of 1.1 billion stars, almost 400...
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Q+a With the First Female Director of Mit's Largest Research Lab
Daniela Rus discusses her objectives as the first female director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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Pluto 'paints' Its Largest Moon Red
In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA's approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, mission...
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How Space Scientists Turn Exoplanets Into Places We Can 'see'
Do a Google image search for "exoplanet."
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Machine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic
A study by researchers from Tsinghua University in China focused on how traffic signaling can be optimized using deep reinforcement learning.
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The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the niverse
In the last couple of years, deep learning techniques have transformed the world of artificial intelligence.
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The Bizarre World of Bitcoin 'mining' Finds a New Home in Tibet
Inside a metal shed in the Tibetan highlands of western China, thousands of microprocessors flank narrow corridors, generating a constant hum and stifling waves...
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