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'faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out...
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Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable For Billions of Years
Venus is—without a doubt—Earth's toxic sibling.
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Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.
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Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...
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Cyborg Stingray Swims Toward Light, Breaks New Ground
The idea of taking apart a rat's heart and transforming it into a tissue-engineered stingray first came to Kevin Kit Parker during a trip to the New England Aquarium...
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Toward Practical Quantum Computers
Researchers have taken a step toward practical quantum computing with a prototype chip that traps ions in an electric field and directs laser light at each of them...
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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Spinning Electrons Could Lead to New Electronics
Graphene and its unique characteristics could transform electronics and expand physicists' understanding of quantum phenomena.
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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Hopes For Revolutionary New Lhc Particle Dashed
It would have been bigger than finding the Higgs boson and marked the beginning of a new era in particle physics.
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Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
Vance Bergeron was once an amateur cyclist who rode 7,000 kilometres per year—much of it on steep climbs in the Alps.
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Crystal Mimics Brain Cell to Sift Through Giant Piles of Data
There's nothing quite like the human brain. Today, researchers at IBM unveiled their latest attempt to mimic it: an artificial neuron that switches between crystal...
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What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner...
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Google's Driverless-Car Czar on Taking the Human Out of the Equation
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...
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