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Researchers Develop a Fast, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface
Researchers say they have developed a non-invasive brain-computer interface that offers the fastest information transfer rate ever achieved.
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How Wireless 'x-Ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall.
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Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned For Nasa Mars Orbiter
Tables stored in flash memory aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) tell locations of Earth and the sun for the past 10 years, but not their locations...
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Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet For Anonymous, Encrypted Im
The anonymity network Tor has long been the paranoid standard for privacy online, and the Tor Browser that runs on it remains the best way to use the web while...
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos For the Blind on Its Own
Facebook's Accessibility Team says it is developing an artificial intelligence tool to automatically describe photos posted on the social network to blind users...
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Smart Glasses Translate Video Into Sound to Help the Blind See
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...
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Now You Can se Emojis to Search For Cute Cat Videos
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...
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Leap Second Heads Into Fierce Debate
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...
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Rosetta Sniffs Oxygen Around Comet 67p
Scientists have detected molecules of oxygen in the hazy halo of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—an unexpected discovery that may challenge theories about the formation...
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A Quick Guide to the Cybersecurity Bill Passed By the .s. Senate
After more than a year of bickering, stalling and revising, the Senate passed its most significant cybersecurity bill to date 74–21.
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One Click Away From the Perfect Outfit
A new iOS smartphone app uses adaptive algorithms to redirect users to online shops selling products they like.
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Cassini Seeks Insights to Life in Plumes of Enceladus, Saturn’s Icy Moon
Where there is water, is there life?
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European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments
The European Parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard "net neutrality" in the EU.
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MIT ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.
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Behind the Scenes of the Internet's First Football Game
At 5:05 AM Sunday, long before the rest of Sunnyvale, California, will wake up, Yahoo's control room is packed.
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Spider Silk Sensors Could Search For Life on Mars
Ziggy Stardust would love this: Spiders could help find life on Mars.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Vast ndersea Network that Makes the Internet Work
Russians submarines and spy ships are "ggressively operating" near the undersea cables that are the backbone of the global Internet—worrying some U.S. intelligence...
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Photons Open the Gateway For Quantum Networks
Researchers have created a photon contact, a key development in the effort to develop quantum computer networks.
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