NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it deems…
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Microsoft Maluuba teaches management 101 to machines in its first paper since being acquired
In mid-January, the ongoing race for AI put Montreal-based Maluuba on our radar. Microsoft acquired the…
About this stabbing machine
Thank you for joining me, ladies, gentlemen. Researchers have created a “stabbing machine,” with which they…
23andMe is finally allowed to tell you if you have the genes for Parkinsons
The Food and Drug Administration finally gave 23andMe a long sought-after green light today to sell…
Swiss system ups security and reliability of finger-based biometrics
Biometrics may not be the perfect solution for security, but they can be useful — as…
Unpaywall scours the web for free versions of scientific papers
The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from…
Watch SpaceX’s reused Falcon 9 rocket nail the landing a second time
SpaceX has posted a video of the Falcon 9 rocket it used first last year during…
Graphene used to sieve salts from seawater
Researchers at the University of Manchester have come up with a method for controlling the permeation…