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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Text Messages Tell Drivers When There's a Jam Ahead
Drivers in Nairobi, Kenya, should have an easier time navigating traffic thanks to a new text message service from IBM Research Africa.
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My Quantum Algorithm Won't Break the Internet… Yet
Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can't break its cryptosystems. But the quantum algorithm you devised has the potential to do just that.
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nmask Wikipedia Sock Puppets By the Way They Write
Researchers have developed a tool that could be used to uncover phony Wikipedia contributors.
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Sunny Fix Would Let Defunct Kepler Hunt Planets Again
NASA's champion planet-hunter, which recently suffered a fatal breakdown, is now looking on the sunny side.
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
Ten million people affected. Half a million displaced. Ten thousand feared dead.
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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?
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Smuggler-Spotting Software Sniffs Out Dodgy Shipments
Machine intelligence could make it easier to spot illicit cargo among the goods that move through the world's ports.
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What Our 3d-Printed Future Looks Like
On-demand organs, Terminator-style arms, and aviation nostalgia—the best of 3D printing is on show in 3D: Printing the Future at London's Science Museum.
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Print a Working Paper Computer on an $80 Inkjet
A new method of printing fine lines of electronic circuitboards onto paper uses an inkjet printer loaded with ink containing silver nanoparticles.
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Early Humans Saw Black Hole Light in the Night Sky
Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and...
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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Tough Robo-Challenge Casts Robots as Rescuers
Global robotics specialists are competing to design a robot that can perform emergency-response duties during disasters.
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Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call
Cicada Hunt is a smartphone app designed to listen for the call of the endangered New Forest cicada; it also can be trained to detect other animals by their calls...
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Twitter Hashtags Predict Rising Tension in Egypt
The Political Polarization Index uses Twitter to measure political tension in Egypt.
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.
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