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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Milky Way to Face a One-Two Punch of Galaxy Collisions
If our knowledge of galaxy structures was limited to the Milky Way, we'd get a lot of things wrong. The Milky Way, it turns out, is unusual.
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How Computers Got Shockingly Good at Recognizing Images
Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type "beach," and see my photos from various beaches I've visited over the last decade.
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All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things
Cities generate lots of data. The exact amount depends on the size of the city and its sophistication and ambitions, but it's certainly more than mere humans can...
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Nailing Down the Nature of 'Oumuamua; It's Probably a Comet, but . . .
Shortly before Halloween, the chairman of Harvard's astronomy department openly declared that an interstellar object hurtling through our Solar System might just...
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The Snowden Legacy: What's Changed, Really?
Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the basis for a series of revelations that...
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Rough-and-Ready Quantum Memory May Link Disparate Quantum Systems
I'm a simple person. To me, a computer consists of three parts: data that goes in and out, operations that modify the data, and storage that holds the data.
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NOAA Is About to Make Some Big Changes to Its Global Weather Model
The nation's weather and climate organization, NOAA, has appointed a new director of its Environmental Modeling Center.
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Turbulence, the Oldest nsolved Problem in Physics
Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize for helping to found the field of quantum mechanics and developing foundational ideas like the Copenhagen interpretation...
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Two Japanese Robots Are Now Happily Hopping on an Asteroid
More than 24 hours after they were released by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft to fly down to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, the Japanese Space Agency has finally...
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Top Drone: Reaper Scores Drone Kill in Air-to-Air Missile Test
The US Air Force has revealed that an MQ-9 Reaper uncrewed aircraft successfully shot down a smaller drone with a heat-seeking air-to-air missile in a test last...
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This Nifty Flying Robot Can Hover, Bank, and Turn as Deftly as a Fruit Fly
Flying insects like bees, dragonflies, and fruit flies can perform impressive aerodynamic feats, particularly when seeking to evade predators or the swatting motion...
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Engineering Tour de Force Births Programmable Optical Quantum Computer
There comes a moment in every physicist's life when they think the unthinkable: I wish I were an engineer. I suspect this thought crossed the minds of the 14-odd...
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Researchers Find Way to Spy on Remote Screens, through the Webcam Mic
Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens?
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Trump Says He Will 'Address' Google's 'Suppressing' of Conservative News
On Tuesday morning, the 45th president of the United States woke up around 5:30am Eastern Time and decided to begin his Tuesday by berating the "Fake News Media...
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This Military Tech Could Finally Help Self-Driving Cars Master Snow
The research conducted at the country's National Laboratories is usually highly classified and specifically aimed at solving national security problems. But sometimes...
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Neural Network Implemented with Light Instead of Electrons
Neural networks have a reputation for being computationally expensive. But only the training portion of things really stresses most computer hardware, since it...
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How They Did It (and Will Likely Try Again): GR Hackers vs. S Elections
In a press briefing just two weeks ago, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned...
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten p AI in Space
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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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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