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The Mission To Save The Internet By Rewiring It From The Name p
A international team has been quietly pondering how to rewrite the basic structure of the Internet—for our sakes.
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Robots May Look Like Job-Killers, But It's Hard to See in the Numbers
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?
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Messenger's Final Image
Originally planned to orbit Mercury for one year, the mission exceeded all expectations, lasting for over four years and acquiring extensive datasets with its seven...
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Deep Learning Machine Solves the Cocktail Party Problem
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.
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When Robot Personalities Mimic the Dead
The creation of robots with personalities mimicking celebrities and other deceased persons could be controversial in terms of how people may react to them.
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Online Voting a Step Closer Thanks to Breakthrough in Security Technology
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable people to cast an election vote online, even if their home computer is infected with malware...
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What Is Being Learned From Moocs? New Report Takes Stock
A new report released this week lays out the current state of research into massive open online courses.
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Detecting Human Life With Remote Technology
Flinders University engineering students have developed new technology to detect human life that they believe is more efficient than published techniques.
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A Google For Handwriting
A new digital platform offers a database of digitized works from cultural heritage collections, including handwritten works rendered searchable.
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Future 'top Guns' Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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Nasa's New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto—the primary target of the New...
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Holograms Could Bring Videogame-Like Navigation to Your Car
There are plenty of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming.
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Resilience, Not Abstinence, May Help Teens Battle Online Risk
Researchers found keeping teens safe on the Internet can be achieved by boosting their ability to cope with online risks, rather than trying to stop them from going...
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c Berkeley Team Builds 'smart' Grocery Cart With Recycled Smartphones
A smart grocery cart was the winning product concept in the inaugural Smartphone Encore Challenge.
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Nasa Bids Farewell to Messenger, Its Mercury Orbiter
A bit over 3,900 days ago, NASA sent a probe on a meandering course through the inner Solar System.
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Microsoft Shows Hololens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick
Microsoft demonstrated how far its augmented-reality HoloLens wonderland project has come.
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One Way to Reduce Email Stress: Re-Invent the Mailing List
Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed a prototype system called Murmur that they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating...
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