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What Did the Atom Say to the Quantum Dot? Let's Talk!
Scientists demonstrate coherent coupling between a quantum dot and a donor atom in silicon, vital for moving information inside…
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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now
On June 23, 1988—a blisteringly hot day in Washington, D.C.—James Hansen told a Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our...
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In Tech, Patents Are Trophies, and These Companies Are Dominating
Dan Zhang just had his career bar mitzvah.
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New Human Gene Tally Reignites Debate
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...
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Relax, Google, the Robot Army Isn't Here Yet
People can differ on their perceptions of "evil."
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Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die
A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs.
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The Inside Story of How AI Got Good Enough to Dominate Silicon Valley
Alex Krizhevsky didn't get into the AI business to change the course of history.
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If You're A Facebook User, You're Also a Research Subject
The professor was incredulous.
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Car Insurers Warn on 'Autonomous' Vehicles
The motor insurance industry is warning carmakers against the use of the word "autonomous" in their marketing.
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Two Critical U.S. Dams at High Risk From Insider Cyber Threats
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, a part of the Interior Department, operates more than 600 of the some 100,000 dams in the United States, five of which are considered...
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Self-Driving Cars Likely Won't Steal Your Job (Until 2040)
The self-driving robots are coming to transform your job. Kind of. Also, very slowly.
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Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Thousands of asteroids are passing through Earth's neighborhood all the time.
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Technology and Satellite Companies Open Up a World of Data
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
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A Faster Way to Fail
University of California, Riverside engineer Sheldon Tan builds electronic circuits just to break them as quickly as possible in order to test their reliability...
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Teaching Robots How to Move Objects
Amazon Robotics Challenge winner Maria Bauza helps to improve how robots interact with the world.
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ZTE's Near-Collapse May Be China's Sputnik Moment
Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom.
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Marine Corps Weighs Wooing Older Members for New Cyber Force
The head of the Marine Corps says it's time the U.S. military branch known for its fierce, young warriors becomes a little more mature.
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The U-2 Spy Plane Is Still Flying Combat Missions 60 Years After Its Debut
Six decades after the U-2 flew its first mission, the military is trying to harness artificial-intelligence technology to enhance the venerable spy plane's combat...
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Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles
The machine hovered above us, at the edge of a cloud of yellow smoke billowing into the sky from a mock hazardous-waste spill.
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'Sheikh Avichay' Gets Under Gazans' Skin With Quotes From Koran
Palestinians mock him as "the sheikh." Communicating with him risks arrest.
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Apple's Plans to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Your Phone
Apple describes its mobile devices as designed in California and assembled in China.
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