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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.
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Scientists Are sing Sound to Track Nighttime Bird Migration
Researchers are helping to track the nighttime migratory patterns of birds by teaching a computer to recognize their flight calls.
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Nc State to Form Nsf-Funded Center For Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With iuc and Georgia Tech
Three universities are forming the Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning to accelerate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and...
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...
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How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly...
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's
Experiments are exploring a new class of semiconductor materials that could form the basis of phase-change memory capable of faster and permanent data storage.
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Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes
A five-year, $1.5-million award will enable Duke University professor Ingrid Daubechies to expand her collaborative research involving mathematics and electrical...
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Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can accurately monitor alcohol level within 15 minutes.
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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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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AI Reads Your Tweets and Spots When You're Being Sarcastic
Researchers at the University of Lisbon have developed a machine learning system that can identify sarcasm on Twitter by examining a user's past tweets.
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