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Senator: Your Futuristic Car Is Putting Your Privacy and Security At Risk
Cars these days have more in common with smart phones than the Model-T. But a new reportfrom Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warns that the increasing technical complexity...
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Autonomous Vehicles: No Drivers Required
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...
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NASA's Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain
The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the rover's...
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...
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Forecasting the Flu Better
A research team at the University of California, San Diego says it has refined and improved the predictions of Google Flu Trends.
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ber and CM Collaborating on Robotically Driven Cars in Lawrenceville
Uber and Carnegie Mellon University are jointly creating a robotics research lab and technology center at the RIDC Chocolate Factory in Pittsburgh.
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Crowdsourcing America's Cybersecurity Is an Idea So Crazy It Might Just Work
Crowdsourced cybersecurity is gaining ground.
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European Project Launches the World's First Real-Time 'mixed Reality' Ski Race
The European Commission is funding an interactive mixed reality downhill ski race as part of the 3D LIVE project.
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Don't Call Them 'utility' Rules: The Fcc's Net Neutrality Regime, Explained
Within a few weeks we’ll have a huge document full of legalese on the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, to replace the near-200-page ...
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Could a Robot Have Written This Story? The Rise of the Robo-Journalist
At large news agencies where speed is crucial, template-style stories have long been used for company results, allowing journalists to simply key in the relevant...
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Planck Mission Explores the History of Our Universe
Hot gas, dust and magnetic fields mingle in a colorful swirl in this new map of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Quantum Computing Without Qubits
For more than 20 years, Ivan H. Deutsch has struggled to design the guts of a working quantum computer.
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The Computer that Crunches Cloud Data to Heat Your Home
Each photo we "like", email we send, and search we run creates heat.
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Team Led By UCLA and Columbia Engineers Uses Disorder to Control Light on a Nanoscale
Researchers have made a discovery that could lead to the more precise transfer of information in computer chips.
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Comet Scientists Abandon Philae Flyby
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will not make a dedicated flyby to search for the lost comet lander Philae any time soon, according to a post on...
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Graphene's Cousin Silicene Makes Transistor Debut
Seven years ago, silicene was little more than a theorist's dream.
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Google Brain's Co-Inventor Tells Why He's Building Chinese Neural Networks
To chat with Andrew Ng I almost have to tackle him.
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Programming: Pick p Python
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.
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German Professor Develops Method to Secure IoT Smart Device Data
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology professor Martina Zitterbart is developing a way to hide data transmitted on smart devices that will run on the Internet of Things...
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