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Tracing Ghost Particles Back to a Distant Black Hole
It was the smallest bullet you could possibly imagine, a subatomic particle weighing barely more than a thought, and a cosmic blunderbuss, a supermassive black...
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Code Now, Pay Tuition Later
Organizations are offering free coding programs for Web engineers that include job placement; graduates agree to pay the schools a portion of their salaries once...
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'We Can Build a Real Time Machine'
Travelling in time might sound like a flight of fancy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.
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Facebook's Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms
When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities...
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The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
The gems of every World Cup are the impossible goals.
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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This Is the Brightest Early niverse Object Ever Seen
A galaxy spinning around a hungry supermassive black hole that's guzzling down matter and shooting out plasma jets has grabbed the attention of astronomers 13 billion...
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Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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Mathematicians Tame Turbulence in Flattened Fluids
Turbulence, the splintering of smooth streams of fluid into chaotic vortices, doesn't just make for bumpy plane rides. It also throws a wrench into the very mathematics...
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Don't Just Lecture Robots; Make Them Learn
The robot apocalypse is nigh. Boston Dynamics' robots are doing backflips and opening doors for their friends. Oh, and these 7-foot-long robot arms can lift 500...
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New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation
A new algorithm could dramatically slash the time it can take computers to recommend movies or route taxis.
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A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles.
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Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets...
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Georgia Department of Education Announces New Funds for Middle School Computer Coding Courses
Georgia's Department of Education has announced $500,000 in grants to middle schools for implementing computer coding programs.
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
There was a time when biochemists had a lot in common with sculptors.
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In Search of New Rules to Protect Other Worlds From Earth's Cooties
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...
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Dawn's Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other...
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