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How Drones May Avoid Collisions By Sharing Knowledge
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working with more then 130 research teams to determine how to manage drone traffic.
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Enzyme Tweak Boosts Precision of Crispr Genome Edits
A powerful technique for editing genomes is now more precise.
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Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-Ray Vision
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy,...
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Dutch Government: Encryption Good, Backdoors Bad
The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that "it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development...
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How 'do Not Track' Ended Up Going Nowhere
Back in 2010, the Federal Trade Commission pledged to give Internet users the power to determine if or when websites were allowed to track their behavior.
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Erica, the 'most Beautiful and Intelligent' Android, Leads Japan's Robot Revolution
Researchers at Osaka and Kyoto universities and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International call "Erica" their most advanced humanoid.
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The Physics of Life
First, Zvonimir Dogic and his students took microtubules—threadlike proteins that make up part of the cell's internal 'cytoskeleton'—and mixed them with kinesins...
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The Big Data of Bad Driving, and How Insurers Plan to Track Your Every Turn
For years, insurance companies have used estimates of your annual mileage to determine your car insurance rates.
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Full-Circle Panorama Beside 'namib Dune' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep...
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In 2015, Promising Surveillance Cases Ran Into Legal Brick Walls
Today, the first Snowden disclosures in 2013 feel like a distant memory.
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Ipv6 Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Reaching 10 Percent Deployment
Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
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How the .s. Requests ser Data from Google
The United States again topped the list of nations that request user data from Google, according to last week's Google Transparency Report.
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How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
There was once a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace...
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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.
Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico...
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The A.i. Anxiety
The world’s spookiest philosopher is Nick Bostrom, a thin, soft-spoken Swede.
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Machines, Lost in Translation: The Dream of Universal Understanding
It was early 1954 when computer scientists, for the first time, publicly revealed a machine that could translate between human languages. It became known as the...
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Nasa and the .s. Air Force Test a New Ground-Based Gps
Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.
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