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Researchers Study ­sers to Increase Cybersecurity
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Researchers Study ­sers to Increase Cybersecurity

How unexpected human behavior on computers can make systems vulnerable is the focus of researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. 

Virtual Human Built from More Than 5,000 Slices of a Real Woman
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Virtual Human Built from More Than 5,000 Slices of a Real Woman

She died two decades ago, but her body lives on in digital form.

Physicists Find New Explanation For Key Experiment
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Physicists Find New Explanation For Key Experiment

Bielefeld University researchers have developed a new measurement method for "spin caloritronics." 

'wiring Diagrams' Link Lifestyle to Brain Function
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'wiring Diagrams' Link Lifestyle to Brain Function

The brain's wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.

Nasa Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars
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Nasa Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot ­nder the Hood
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot ­nder the Hood

Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.

Automotive Systems Get Smarter
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Automotive Systems Get Smarter

Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips

At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...

Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor
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Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor

Economics trump performance in a chip with great potential.

Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child

It looked like a child's playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall.

Supercomputing's Super Energy Needs, and What to Do About Them
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Supercomputing's Super Energy Needs, and What to Do About Them

The power it takes to drive petaflop machines could supply a small city with electricity.

­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
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­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science

As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...

Brain-Computer Link Enables Paralyzed California Man to Walk
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Brain-Computer Link Enables Paralyzed California Man to Walk

A brain-to-computer technology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become...

Rosetta Reveals Comet's Water-Ice Cycle
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Rosetta Reveals Comet's Water-Ice Cycle

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water-ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.

How Much of Your Audience Is Fake?
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How Much of Your Audience Is Fake?


A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

August 11, the National Security Agency updated an obscure page on its website with an announcement that it plans to shift the encryption of government and military...

King Man + Woman = Queen: The Marvelous Mathematics of Computational Linguistics
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King Man + Woman = Queen: The Marvelous Mathematics of Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.

Designing Electric and Magnetic Order For Low-Energy Computing
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Designing Electric and Magnetic Order For Low-Energy Computing

Researchers at the University of Liverpool say they have developed a new material that combines both electrical and magnetic order at room temperature.  

Forget the Turing Test—there Are Better Ways of Judging AI
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Forget the Turing Test—there Are Better Ways of Judging AI

Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.

Software Is Smart Enough For Sat, but Still Far From Intelligent
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Software Is Smart Enough For Sat, but Still Far From Intelligent

An artificial intelligence software program capable of seeing and reading has for the first time answered geometry questions from the SAT at the level of an average...
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