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It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.
What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...
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Neuron Creation in Brain's Memory Centre Stops After Childhood
Every day, the human hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, creates hundreds of new nerve cells—or so scientists thought.
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NASA Juno finds Jupiter's Jet-Streams Are nearthly
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar...
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Making Climate Models Open Source Makes Them Even More seful
A new open source set of models has allowed climate research to become more collaborative, efficient, and reliable.
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Does a Quantum Equation Govern Some of the niverse's Large Structures?
Researchers who want to predict the behavior of systems governed by quantum mechanics—an electron in an atom, say, or a photon of light traveling through space—typically...
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FBI Chief Signals Need to nderstand Potential Threats Tied to Cryptocurrency
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday said the bureau must be prepared to confront a new set of emerging cyber threats.
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New Low Light Camera Tech Will Improve AR Apps, Facial Recognition in Smartphones
Researchers in Israel have developed new imaging software that could help improve facial recognition systems and augmented reality apps on smartphones.
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Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn
Machines are starting to learn tasks on their own. They are identifying faces, recognizing spoken words, reading medical scans and even carrying on their own conversations...
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Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
You can't see the bunny, but the picosecond laser certainly can.
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Latest S Weather Satellite Highlights Forecasting Challenges
The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather-forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on 1 March. The craft will enable...
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Chemists Test Computer-Planned Syntheses for the First Time
Chemists have tested a computer program's ability to plan complete syntheses without human intervention.
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AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People
There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by hundreds of thousands of real people.
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The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches
I usually write in Google's online word processor Google Docs, even when noting the company's shortcomings.
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These Provocative Images Show Russian Trolls Sought to Inflame Debate Over Climate Change, Fracking and Dakota Pipeline
Russian trolls used Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to inflame U.S. political debate over energy policy and climate change, a finding that underscores how the Russian...
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HKST Researchers Develop First Innovative Fusion-Based Location Sensing Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a new fusion-based technology to support smart city projects.
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Has Dopamine Got s Hooked on Tech?
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...
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Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS
Earth got a warning shot on January 25, 2016. On that day, Air Force engineers were scheduled to kill off a GPS satellite named SVN-23—the oldest in the navigation...
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Astronomers Detect Light from the niverse's First Stars
Astronomers have for the first time spotted long-sought signals of light from the earliest stars ever to form in the Universe—around 180 million years after the...
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The 5 Most Popular Programming Languages Among Female Developers
More women are majoring in computer science than in the past, according to HackerRank's 2018 Women in Tech Report.
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