June 24, 2016

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A clever twist on the batteries in smartphones could help us better harness wind and solar power

The startup’s cheaper way to make lithium-ion batteries could make it cost-effective to store energy from renewable sources.

 
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Your face might be part of the FBI’s enormous face recognition network

Questions about accuracy and transparency plague the bureau’s five-year-old face matching system.

 
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A Japanese supercomputer that uses chips like those in your phone suggests trouble for Intel

Supercomputers can’t keep getting faster unless they start eating less power. Chips like those in your phone could make that possible.

 
 

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Hope turns to sticky mass in the spine of a stem cell tourist

Stroke survivor Jim Gass wanted to be healed with stem cells. Instead, they ended up hurting him.

 
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This dashcam app aims to alert you to crappy drivers around you

Startup Nexar aims to profile bad drivers and warn you about them before you encounter them on the road.

 
 

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Physicists have used a quantum computer to simulate creation of antimatter

Scaling up the hardware could one day solve problems well beyond the ability of current computers.

 
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How the new science of computational history is changing the study of the past

Applying network theory to medieval records suggests that historical events are governed by “laws of history,” just as nature is bound by the laws of physics.

 
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