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How Supercomputers Can Help Fix Our Wildfire Problem
Fire is chaos. Fire doesn't care what it destroys or who it kills—it spreads without mercy, leaving total destruction in its wake, as California's Camp and Woolsey...
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Learn to Fly Sikorsky's New Helicopter in Just 45 Minutes
A specially equipped Sikorsky helicopter can be controlled through a handheld tablet, and learning to pilot it can take as little as 45 minutes.
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Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
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Here's How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...
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Scientists Help Robots 'Evolve.' Weirdness Ensues
Evolution is a trip. On the one hand, it's a seemingly simple mechanism—those best fitted to their environment have more babies, while less fit individuals don't...
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Google Wants China. Will Chinese sers Want Google?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was upbeat Monday when he told WIRED about internal tests of a censored search engine designed to win approval from Chinese officials....
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These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos, for Now
For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team's deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease.
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The Ick of AI That Impersonates Humans
Philip K. Dick was living a few miles north of San Francisco when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which envisioned a world where artificially intelligent...
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How Russian Spies Infiltrated Hotel Wi-Fi to Hack Victims p Close
For years, the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive hackers have reached across the globe to hit targets with everything from simple phishing schemes to worms built...
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Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking
When apps want to access data from your smartphone's motion or light sensors, they often make that capability clear.
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Crispr's Epic Patent Fight Changed the Course of Biology
After three bitter years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of the most common methods for editing the DNA in any...
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How The Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation
At a certain point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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Hackers Can Steal a Tesla Model S in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob
Tesla has taken plenty of innovative steps to protect the driving systems of its kitted-out cars against digital attacks. It's hired top-notch security engineers...
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AI Can Recognize Images. But Can It nderstand This Headline?
In 2012, artificial intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding a neural network millions of labeled...
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The Serious Security Problem Looming Over Robotics
They call it Herb2. It's a dapper robot, wearing a bowtie even while it sits at home in its lab at the University of Washington.
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A Monitor's ltrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What's on the Screen
You probably assume that someone can only see what's on your computer screen by looking at it.
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How Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts
When the cybersecurity industry warns about the nightmare of hackers causing blackouts, the scenario they describe typically entails an elite team of hackers ...
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Watch a Sporty AI Teach Itself to Dribble Better Than You
I'm not what you'd call a coordinated man, so basketball horrifies me. All the dribbling, all the shooting—all while running and dodging people trying to smack...
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This Bomb-Simulating S Supercomputer Broke a World Record
Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem.
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