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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
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The AI Revolution Is Making Game Characters Move More Realistically
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
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On Venus, Tectonics Without the Plates
As we've explored the Solar System, some items we're familiar with from Earth's geology have kept appearing in new places.
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'we All Love the Tomahawk:' A Brief History of .s.'s Favorite Robotic Killer
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...
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For Sale: Your Private Browsing History
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...
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Single Atom Feels the Quantum Heat
Thermal transport—the way heat is carried away from a processor, for instance—is very familiar to us.
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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We Finally Have a Computer that Can Survive the Surface of Venus
Venus is one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system.
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Information Paradox and Black Holes in Plasmas
Black holes are a problem for physics, and the physics community has never fully warmed to the idea of them.
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Google Brain Super-Resolution Image Tech Makes 'zoom, Enhance!' Real
Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. Google's software, in short, basically means thetrope...
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niverse Neither Confirms Nor Denies Its Holographic Nature
Cosmology is a funny kind of science.
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In Not-Too-Distant Future, Brain Hackers Could Steal Your Deepest Secrets
In the beginning, people hacked phones.
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US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search in Any Language
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the US Intelligence Community’s own science and technology research arm, has announced it is seeking...
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Back to the Future: Silicon May Work For Quantum Computing
Although I write a lot about quantum computing, I've not really paid much attention to performing quantum computations with silicon-based qubits. Luckily Stephanie...
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Dod Successfully Tests Terrifying Swarm of 104 Micro-Drones
The Department of Defense has released video of a test of swarming drones conducted in the skies over the US Navy's test range at Naval Air Weapons Station China...
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Nasa Chooses Two Asteroid Missions Instead of a Venus Return
For the planetary science community, the day when NASA makes the final call on new Solar System exploration missions always feels bittersweet.
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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