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Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk
A chart shows the ascent of high-speed algorithmic trading, a phenomenon that is unnerving the financial markets.
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Twitter Happiness Levels Soar As People Travel Further From Home
Happiness levels caputred by Tweets rise logarithmically with distance from our average location, say computer scientists studying Twitter sentiment
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A Display That Makes Interactive 3-D Seem Mind-Bogglingly Real
The Z Space display could be revolutionary for designers and animators, but might also inspire innovation in computer gaming and augmented reality.
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Morality, the Next Frontier in Human-Computer Interaction
Think drone strikes are ethically complicated? Autonomous cars will be even thornier.
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“House of Cards” and Our Future of Algorithmic Programming
Netflix knew why its original TV series would be a hit—based on data about the viewing habits of its 33 million users.
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How Dark Matter Interacts with the Human Body
Dark matter must collide with human tissue, and physicists have now calculated how often. The answer? More often than you might expect.
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A DIY Bioprinter Is Born
Members of the biohacker movement have created an inexpensive device to print cells. Will they print a leaf next?
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Psychedelic Drug Research and the Data-Mining Revolution
The Web is filled with users’ descriptions of the effects of psychedelic drugs. Now neuroscientists are using data-mining techniques to quantify the effects of these drugs on human consciousness.
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Physicists Build World’s First “Magnetic Hose” For Transmitting Magnetic Fields
Magnetic fields decay rapidly and so have never been transmitted over long distances. Until now …
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Siri, Google Now, and the End of Apps
If Siri gets more powerful people will have little use for many apps.
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