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Spies in Our Pockets
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
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China Building World's Biggest Quantum Research Facility
China plans to building the world's largest quantum research facility, according to researchers and authorities involved in the initiative.
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Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet's atmosphere...
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Global Fingerprints of Sea-Level Rise Revealed by Satellites
As an ice sheet melts, it leaves a unique signature behind. Complex geological processes distribute the meltwater in a distinct pattern, or 'fingerprint', thatthese...
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How Apple Is Bringing Us Into the Age of Facial Recognition Whether We're Ready or Not
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology...
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High-Speed Quantum Memory for Photons
A new memory technology can store photons in a rubidium atomic vapor and read them out again later without significantly altering their quantum mechanical properties...
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Why Google's AI Can Write Beautiful Songs but Still Can't Tell a Joke
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google, but it makes a lot of sense to...
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Julia Joins Petaflop Club
The open source Julia programming language has been admitted into the "Petaflop Club."
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Pacemaker Recall Exposes National Need for Research and Education in Embedded Security
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's first major recall of pacemakers due to a cybersecurity risk highlights a national need for research and education on embedded...
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Brain Composer: 'Thinking' Melodies Onto a Musical Score
P300 is a new brain-computer interface application that enables music to be composed by thought.
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Voting-Roll Vulnerability
It is relatively easy for hackers to buy enough personal information to potentially rig online voter registration information in as many as 35 states and Washington...
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Lotfi Zadeh, Father of Mathematical 'Fuzzy Logic,' Dies at 96
Zadeh's theories of "fuzzy logic" rippled across academia and industry.
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Operational Limits Played Key Role in Tesla Crash on Autopilot: NTSB
The chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday "operational limitations" in the Tesla Model S played a "major role" in a May...
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Cassini Makes Its 'Goodbye Kiss' Flyby of Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet's giant moon Titan.
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Will Quantum Computers Surpass Encryption?
The fundamentally different paradigm of quantum computation will require fundamentally different security.
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The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer
When the Summit supercomputer opens for business next year, it will be the United States' most powerful supercomputer, and perhaps the most powerful in the world...
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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Nissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans.
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In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own
The robot was perched over a bin filled with random objects, from a box of instant oatmeal to a small toy shark.
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Geneticists Pan Paper that Claims to Predict a Person's Face from Their DNA
A storm of criticism has rained down on a paper by genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter that claims to predict people's physical traits from their DNA.
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Online Gaming Yields First Results for Alzheimer's Research
Stall Catchers is an online computer game in which players use to analyze movies of blood flow to the brain as part of Alzheimer's disease research.
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