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A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials
Startup Kebotix has created software that learns material chemistry from models of molecules with known properties in order to design novel compounds.
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Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday.
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Social Media Companies Grapple with New Forms of Political Misinformation
Social media companies are struggling to contain new forms of political misinformation on their platforms that bubbled up during this year's midterm elections. ...
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STEM Firms to Run U.K. National Center for Computing Education
U.K. companies in the science, technology, engineering, and math sectors will work together to create and lead a U.K. National Center for Computing Education.
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Imaging the Earth's Interior With the Summit Supercomputer
Princeton University researchers used years' worth of global earthquake data to generate a three-dimensional simulation of the Earth's interior.
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China's Xinhua Agency Unveils AI News Presenter
China's Xinhua state news agency has debuted a virtual newsreader that the agency said "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor."
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Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption
Researchers have found vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives that allow hackers to circumvent encryption and access local data without knowing the password...
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Fire Shows Need for Early Detection: How Tech and AI Can Help
San Jose State University's Craig Clements says artificial intelligence is being explored to more rapidly localize fires and predict their propagation and behaviors...
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Upgraded US Supercomputers Claim Top Two Spots on Top500 List
The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore...
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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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To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets'
In 2016, the chip industry's clock ran out.
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Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability
Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Intel processors that can allow attackers to leak encrypted data from the internal process of a central processing...
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Kids are Scared of MRI Tests. A New App Turns Them Into a Game.
A high school student in Minnesota has developed a virtual reality app that prepares children for an magnetic resonance imaging scan.
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Amazon Go Has a Real Rival in Japan
A company in Japan has developed an automated system that could rival Amazon Go in terms of quickly providing consumers with products.
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Using Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Researchers have developed a technique to see through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and an ordinary smartphone.
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Why Some Wikipedia Disputes Go Unresolved
Researchers found that factors such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments led to about a third of Requests for Comment by Wikipedia editors going unresolved...
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Discussion topics included counterterrorism, data breaches, and surveillance.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father.
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