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Massive Martian Dust Storm Endangers NASA Rover
An enormous dust storm is blanketing much of Mars, blocking the sunlight that NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover needs to survive.
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In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You
The camera perched above the bus stop sends back a continuous feed from the corner of 16th Avenue and South 18th Street in Newark's West Ward.
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Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Supercomputers. Here's What to Do About It
The Cray-1 supercomputer, the world's fastest back in the 1970s, does not look like a supercomputer.
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London's Roadmap to Becoming the World's Smartest City
London, U.K., mayor Sadiq Khan has released details of his plan to make his city the world's smartest.
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Watch Real Football Matches in Miniature Played on Your Desk
Researchers have taught a machine learning neural network algorithm to render two-dimensional video clips posted on YouTube as three-dimensional images.
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The niverse Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
In the early 2000s, a small community of coder-cosmologists set out to simulate the 14-billion-year history of the universe on a supercomputer.
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AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...
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Memristors Key to Nano-Scale Analog/Digital Adaptive Hardware
The University of Southampton in the U.K. is advancing memristors and charge-based processing to make analog and digital technologies adaptable in the nanoscale...
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Opportunity Hunkers Down During Dust Storm
NASA engineers received a transmission from Opportunity on Sunday morning, a positive sign despite the worsening dust storm.
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Exploring Cyber Resilience for Electricity
Challenges face the use of microgrids, but they hold the potential for increased grid security.
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This Yale Technology Could Fix Blockchain's Security Issues
Yale University researchers have developed a new blockchain security system.
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China's Schools Are Quietly sing AI to Mark Students' Essays ... but Do the Robots Make the Grade?
A quarter of schools in China are testing a device that uses artificial intelligence to grade students' essays.
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Forecasting the Evolution of Cancer
Researchers have created a computer model that predicts how tumors will develop.
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Keeping Data Fresh for Wireless Networks
A new algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can refresh data within a simple wireless communication system.
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Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water
Researchers in Japan have developed a firefighting snake-like robot with the body of a fire hose.
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Move Over, China: .S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer
The United States just won bragging rights in the race to build the world's speediest supercomputer.
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The -2 Spy Plane Is Still Flying Combat Missions 60 Years After Its Debut
Six decades after the U-2 flew its first mission, the military is trying to harness artificial-intelligence technology to enhance the venerable spy plane's combat...
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Why Emergency Braking Systems Sometimes Hit Parked Cars and Lane Dividers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...
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