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Killer Asteroids Are Lurking Around Us – A New Cloud-Based Tool Can Help Spot Them
There are a lot of asteroids to track in our solar system and many are yet to be discovered. Discovering…
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The Ultimate Fate of a Star Shredded by a Black Hole: Spaghettified at 22 Million Miles per Hour
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption…
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UFO Sightings and COVID-19 Pandemic Link Tested in Surprising New Research
A recent article published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration investigated whether the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase…
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Can You Trust Your Quantum Simulator? MIT Physicists Report a New Quantum Phenomenon
Physicists at MIT have devised a protocol for verifying the accuracy of quantum experiments. Physics gets strange at the atomic…
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The “Wrong Kind of Fire” Is Burning – Unprecedented Levels of High-Severity Fire Burn in Sierra Nevada
UC Davis Project Scientist John N. Williams uses a drip torch to light a prescribed burn at Shaver Lake in…
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Amazon and Microsoft deny using Flickr pics for facial recognition, as suits test limits of privacy law
Facing a pair of related lawsuits, Amazon and Microsoft both acknowledge that people working on their respective facial-recognition technologies downloaded…
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Revolutionary AI System Learns Concepts Shared Across Video, Audio, and Text
Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that allows machines…
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Interview: Microsoft’s president on turbulent times for the company, country, and world
Brad Smith, like many in tech and the broader world, thought 2022 might bring a bit of a break. Halfway…
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Spreadsheets (2+2)ever = Tiller personal finance startup finds growth formula in Microsoft Excel
Eight years ago, Seattle-area entrepreneur Peter Polson decided to pursue what he perceived as a gap in the personal finance…
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How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern
As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could…
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