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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
Vance Bergeron was once an amateur cyclist who rode 7,000 kilometres per year—much of it on steep climbs in the Alps.
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Crystal Mimics Brain Cell to Sift Through Giant Piles of Data
There's nothing quite like the human brain. Today, researchers at IBM unveiled their latest attempt to mimic it: an artificial neuron that switches between crystal...
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What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner...
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Here's How Government Thinks Nanotech Will Transform Cyber
A group of U.S. federal organizations think brain-inspired nanotechnology could help the government protect its networks.
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What's Wasting Power at Home? Ask Your App!
New technology could make it much easier for consumers to accurately determine how much power is being consumed by each device in their home.
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Google's Driverless-Car Czar on Taking the Human Out of the Equation
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...
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Frequent Password Changes Are the Enemy of Security, Ftc Technologist Says
Shortly after Carnegie Mellon University professor Lorrie Cranor became chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission in January, she was surprised by an ...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage for General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical...
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Caltech Scientists Improve Computer Graphics With Quantum Mechanics
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have used the mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level to simulate large-scale motion.
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How Vulnerable to Hacking Is the U.s. Election Cyber Infrastructure?
Adversaries' growing use of cyberweapons to influence target groups in the U.S. is provoking concern that the U.S. electoral process is at risk.
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Blind Athlete Runs Desert Marathon Unassisted Using Smartphone App
IBM researchers have developed an application designed to help visually-impaired runners navigate on their own.
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Vortex Laser Offers Hope For Moore's Law
Researchers have used orbital angular momentum to advance laser technology, a breakthrough that could boost computing power and information transfer rates tenfold...
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Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck's Accelerator and Brakes
When cybersecurity researchers showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles' brakes or hijack their steering...
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Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point
Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.
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America's Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be "rigged." Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in...
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Your Battery Status Is Being Used to Track You Online
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...
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