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How Alibaba Is sing Bra Sizes to Predict Online Shopping Habits
Earlier this summer, a group of data crunchers looking at underwear sales at Alibaba came across a curious trend: women who bought larger bra sizes also tended ...
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health.
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Joint Effort Nabs Next Wave of S Supercomputers
Once locked in an arms race with each other for the fastest supercomputers, US national laboratories are now banding together to buy their next-generation machines...
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
You can now count your steps, measure your glucose levels, monitor your blood pressure and track your caloric intake from your phone or high-tech wristband.
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Touchdown! Rosetta's Philae Probe Lands on Comet
ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.
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Survey: .s. Adults Feel They Are Losing Control of Their Data
Adults living in the U.S. overwhelmingly believe that the government and private companies are violating their privacy, a new survey found.
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Why You Probably Won't Understand the Web of the Future
The giants of the connected world are finally waking up to one of the biggest obstacles in their stated missions of connecting billions more people to the internet...
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Philae Lander Nears a Cosmic Touchdown
In its 10-year chase of a comet, the European Space Agency’s ambitious Rosetta mission has pushed the edges of engineering ingenuity.
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U.s. Agencies Struggle vs. Cyberattacks
A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing...
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Newest Nasa Mars Orbiter Demonstrates Relay Prowess
The newest node in NASA's Mars telecommunications network—a radio aboard the MAVEN orbiter custom-designed for data links with robots on the surface of Mars—handled...
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Can an Algorithm Tell US Who Influenced an Artist?
Rutgers University researchers are training a computer to analyze thousands of paintings to understand which artists influenced others.
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A Super-Simple Way to nderstand the Net Neutrality Debate
It's one of the most important policy disputes that will determine the future of the Internet, and now President Obama has formally weighed in in favor of so-called ...
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Hacking a niverse's Worth of Data
On a Friday night in New York City you can find just about anything. And this past Friday about 130 hackers gathered in the Hayden Planetarium to participate in...
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For Rosetta Mission's Scientists, the Thrill Is in the Comet Chase
Claudia Alexander has spent the last 15 years of her life waiting for this moment: landing a spacecraft the size of a washing machine on the surface of a speeding...
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