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The Imperfect Crime: How the Wannacry Hackers Could Get Nabbed
When hackers unleashed the WannaCry "ransomware" in mid-May, not only did they wreak havoc on European hospitals, telecoms and railways, they also made off with...
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Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI
When Jason Matheny joined the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a program manager in 2009, he made a habit of chatting to the organization's...
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Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei For the First Time
Neutrinos are famously antisocial. Of all the characters in the particle physics cast, they are the most reluctant to interact with other particles.
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Lhc Physicists nveil a Charming New Particle
Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new kind of heavy particle, they announced...
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Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.
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World's Most Powerful Particle Collider Taps AI to Expose Hack Attacks
Thousands of scientists worldwide tap into CERN's computer networks each day in their quest to better understand the fundamental structure of the universe.
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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The Search For Life on Mars Is About to Get Weird
Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters...
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When Autonomous Machines Can Do More Than Just Vacuum
Rapidly aging populations will drive growth in home-based robotics, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Rodney Brooks.
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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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Ghost in the Sell: Hollywood's Mischievous Vision of AI
Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on borrowed time.
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Brain-Computer Interface Allows Speediest Typing to Date
Ten years ago Dennis Degray's life changed forever when he slipped and fell while taking out the trash in the rain.
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Europa Mission Heralds Sea Change in the Search For Alien Life
It's not something NASA likes to advertise, but ever since its creation in 1958, the space agency has only conducted one direct, focused hunt for extraterrestrial...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.
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Trick of Tweet: Data Tool Pinpoints Words Seen as Credible
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
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150-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri Proposed
Interstellar travel, a timeworn staple of science fiction, can already be science fact if one has cash to spare
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