Image Credit: © See-ming Lee/ Flickr Researchers say most people don’t realize how much information they're leaving behind as they browse the web. The Footprints Project explores the vulnerabilities. If you still think you can be anonymous on the internet,...
Beam of light passing through splitter. Credit: Lee Henderson/UNSW Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) and University of Queensland (UQ) have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information using a new method to surpass previous cloning limits. A global race is...
A team, including researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has created a new set of algorithms that can efficiently fit probability distributions to high-dimensional data.Image: MIT News   New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with...
“Gitless" removes complicated concepts like "staging" and "stashing," without fundamentally changing Git's core functionality.Image: Santiago Perez De Rosso   CSAIL team's “Gitless” fixes Git’s biggest issues — and suggests their approach could help improve systems like Gmail and Dropbox. Git is an...
A look inside of an LCD television manufacturing plant. A new paper shows that similar technology could be used to create a room-wide wireless power transfer system.Credit:Duke University Flat-screen technology could produce wide-range, wireless power transfer devices The flat-screen TV on...
Extracellular needle-electrode with a diameter of 5 ?m mounted on a connector. Credit: (C) Toyohashi University of Technology. All Rights Reserved. Single 5?m diameter needle electrode block modules for unit recordings in vivo A research team in the Department of Electrical...
Microsoft researchers from the Speech & Dialog research group include, from back left, Wayne Xiong, Geoffrey Zweig, Xuedong Huang, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Jasha Droppo and Andreas Stolcke. (Photo by Dan DeLong) Microsoft has made a major breakthrough...
The coordinated cyber attack that crippled parts of the internet on Friday highlighted key policy problems, a Stanford cybersecurity scholar said. And while the problems were clear, there are no easy solutions, said Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar for...
The heart-on-a-chip is entirely 3-D printed with built-in sensors that measure the contractile strength of the tissue, providing scientists with new possibilities for studying the musculature of the heart Credit: Johan Lind, Disease Biophysics Group/Lori K. Sanders, Lewis Lab/Harvard...
The quantum sniffer dog

The quantum sniffer dog

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The laser (on the right) sends its light through a gas container, then the beam is reflected by a mirror (left). Credit: TU Wien As humans, we sniff out different scents and aromas using chemical receptors in our noses. In...
Researchers have succeeded in getting it to recognize sixty percent of human touches.Credit:University of Twente A squeeze in the arm, a pat on the shoulder, or a slap in the face -- touch is an important part of the social...