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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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If There's Life on Saturn's Moon Enceladus, It Might Look Like This
Saturn's moon Enceladus has become an alien-hunting hot spot, and not just for the tinfoil hat crowd.
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These Perfectly Imperfect Diamonds Are Built for Quantum Physics
In the mid-2000S, diamonds were the hot new thing in physics. It wasn't because of their size, color, or sparkle, though.
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Mind the Gap: This Researcher Steals Data With Noise, Light, and Magnets
The field of cybersecurity is obsessed with preventing and detecting breaches, finding every possible strategy to keep hackers from infiltrating your digital inner...
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AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory
When it comes to black boxes, there is none more black than the human brain. Our gray matter is so complex, scientists lament, that it can't quite understand itself...
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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DARPA Wants to Build an Image Search Engine Out of Dna
Most people use Google's search-by-image feature to either look for copyright infringement, or for shopping.
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Thank the Planet's Shifty Magnetic Poles For Runway Renaming
For decades, pilots heading into or out of Wichita Eisenhower National Airport in southeast Kansas have had three runways to choose from: 1L/19R, 1R/19L, and 14...
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A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save Iot
On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island.
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Nasa Just Proved It Can Navigate Space Using Pulsars. Where to Now?
Half a century ago, astronomers observed their first pulsar: a dead, distant, ludicrously dense star that emitted pulses of radiation with remarkable regularity...
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When Wi-Fi Won't Work, Let Sound Carry Your Data
If you've ever struggled to pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or set up a wireless printer, you know that it's often easier to connect to a server halfway...
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A Critical Intel Flaw Breaks Basic Security For Most Computers
One of the most basic premises of computer security is isolation: If you run somebody else's sketchy code as an untrusted process on your machine, you should restrict...
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Physics Found Gravitational Waves. Now Come the Existential Questions
On September 14, 2015, at 3:50 AM Central time, a tiny vibration shuddered down the 2.5-mile-long arms of a massive machine in Livingston, Louisiana.
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Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter
Tech giants love to tout how good their computers are at identifying what's depicted in a photograph.
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'oumuamua Probably Isn't a Spaceship, But It Could Have Passengers
Last Wednesday, at 3:45 pm, scientists from the Breakthrough Listen project trained the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia on 'Oumuamua—the mysterious, oblong...
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Unprecedented Malware Targets Industrial Safety Systems in the Middle East
Since Stuxnet first targeted and destroyed uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran last decade, the cybersecurity world has waited for the next step in that digital...
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It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments
The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...
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Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome Sequence
Today, a teaspoon of spit and a hundred bucks is all you need to get a snapshot of your DNA. But getting the full picture—all 3 billion base pairs of your genome—requires...
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Google's AI Wizard nveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
If you want to blame someone for the hoopla around artificial intelligence, 69-year-old Google researcher Geoff Hinton is a good candidate.
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These Neurons Are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them in 3-D
For patients with epilepsy, or cancerous brain lesions, sometimes the only way to forward is down.
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