A bizarre piece of space history goes up for auction later this month
You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s
Each ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ was a 230-pound robot that NASA engineers designed to test space suits.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Generates Videos From Stills
It examines a photo and extrapolates what happens next
MIT has used machine learning to create video from still images, and the results are pretty impressive. As you can see from the above image, there's a lot of natural…
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Google Is Making It Harder To Pick Out Fake Voices
Robotic human speech is becoming less robotic and more human.
Google's DeepMind AI is learning how to talk. And learning how to do it like a person, not a computer. DeepMind has a lot of learning projects going on, but the newest…
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Second Asteroid In A Month Sails By Without Us Detecting It First
Do you want extinction? This is how you get extinction.
Know what's really comforting? When a completely unobserved asteroid snuck up on earth and went whizzing by our planet like a golf ball, without so much as a "Fore!"…
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Protein In Your Hair Is Better Than DNA At Identifying You
It may even replace DNA sequencing in forensic investigations
Until now DNA has been the highest bar for identification in forensics. But when it comes to hair samples of missing persons or those found at crime scenes, sequencing…
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Meet the Creepiest Android NASA Ever Built
To spare astronauts from test-induced injuries, NASA designed a scary dummy to test out spacesuits.
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Researchers Train AI To Defeat Face Blurring Technologies
The scary thing is, they say almost anyone can do it
Machine learning researchers at Cornell Tech and the University of Texas at Austin have developed software that makes it possible for users to recognize a person’s…
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Nicotine Only Controls You Because You Believe In It
In the battle of you versus cigarettes, your brain has more power than you think
No ifs, ands, or butts: if you stop thinking that cigarettes control you, they don't.
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Watch This Drone Slip Through A Narrow Window
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Cone Snail Venom Could Help Create Speedy Diabetes Treatments
A fast-acting insulin sea snails use to stun prey may help people
Scientists in Australia and the United States have unlocked the structure of an insulin that cone snails use to stun their prey.
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Apple's iOS 10 Update Screws Up iPhones Of Early Adopters
Why it pays to wait, sometimes
Wondering what new features iOS 10 will bring to your phone? Well if you download it today, you might end up with zero features. Like the Brick app. You know, because…
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A New Map Will Help Predict Earth's Response to Space Weather
Helping the Earth combat solar storms
The Earth's magnetic field protects the planet from solar storms. But the planet's crust plays a role, too…
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Solar Tuk Tuk Arrived in the UK This Week
The journey had its setbacks -- especially 250 miles from the end
Naveen Rabelli travele 6000 miles, from India to the UK, in a solar-powered tuk tuk he designed.
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The Pentagon Wants To Get Better At Spotting Photoshop
Identifying modified images is a priority for intelligence
The Pentagon is pursuing new technology to help them identify images that have been modified or edited, as part of its growing intelligence-gathering needs.
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The Military Wants A Way To Track Drones Flying Over Cities
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Ice Cores From Melting Glaciers Will Be Stored In Antarctica
A frozen trove for future research
Scientists from France and Italy are building a library of samples taken from melting glaciers.
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Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago
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This Robotic Tank Wants To Kill Mosquitoes With A Laser
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Science Press Site 'EurekAlert!' Offline After Being Hacked
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Chevy Will Give You Free Gas, But Only If You're Happy On Social Media
How much is your attitude worth?
Chevrolet's new campaign uses the processing power of IBM's Watson to determine how positive you are. And you may be able to get some free gas out of it, if you're…
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