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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'

Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
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Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them

Just over a billion years ago, many millions of galaxies from here, a pair of black holes collided.

Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time
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Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time

Moore's law has died at the age of 51 after an extended illness.

Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database
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Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database

A giant database on the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals will make it easier to predict the toxicity of tens of thousands of consumer products for which...

'Haptic Glasses' Could Make Car Navigation Safer, Less Distracting
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'Haptic Glasses' Could Make Car Navigation Safer, Less Distracting

Human factors/ergonomics researchers have developed an automotive navigation system that uses haptic communication and shows promise to address the cognitive overload...

Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics
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Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics

Scientists have developed a simple and powerful method for creating resilient, customized, and high-performing graphene by layering it on top of common glass.

Power Walk: Footsteps Could Charge Mobile Electronics
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Power Walk: Footsteps Could Charge Mobile Electronics

An  energy harvesting and storage technology developed at University of Wisconsin–Madison could reduce mobile devices' reliance on batteries by capturing energy...

Boffo or Bomb? Algorithm Predicts Movie's Box Office Success
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Boffo or Bomb? Algorithm Predicts Movie's Box Office Success

The producers of Batman v. Superman won't be happy.

Could Vietnam Become the Next Silicon Valley?
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Could Vietnam Become the Next Silicon Valley?

Eddie Thai and Binh Tran are the kind of American entrepreneurs you'd expect to meet in Silicon Valley.

­S Military: Robot Wars
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­S Military: Robot Wars

When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...

Computer Science Coding Competition Kicks Off
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Computer Science Coding Competition Kicks Off

Dream it. Code it. Win it., an international student coding competition for high-school and college students, will award $80,000 in prizes in its third annual competition...

Cockroach Inspires Robot That Squeezes Through Cracks
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Cockroach Inspires Robot That Squeezes Through Cracks

Inspired by creepy cockroaches, UC Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can crawl even when squashed to half its size.

After 100 Years, Scientists Are Finally Closing In on Einstein's Ripples
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After 100 Years, Scientists Are Finally Closing In on Einstein's Ripples

The rain began to fall as Joe Giaime and I scrambled down a lonely rise, back toward the observatory's main building.

Minimally Invasive 'stentrode' Shows Potential as Neural Interface For Brain
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Minimally Invasive 'stentrode' Shows Potential as Neural Interface For Brain

A DARPA-funded research team has created a novel neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels, eliminating the need for invasive...

Graphene Is Strong, But Is It Tough?
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Graphene Is Strong, But Is It Tough?

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a statistical theory for the toughness of polycrystalline graphene and found that it is indeed strong, but that its toughness...

Chiral Magnetic Effect Generates Quantum Current
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Chiral Magnetic Effect Generates Quantum Current

Scientists have discovered a way to generate very low-resistance electric current by separating left- and right-handed particles in a semi-metallic material. The...

Gps and the World's First 'space War'
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Gps and the World's First 'space War'

Twenty-five years ago U.S.-led Coalition forces launched the world’s first "space war" when they drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

Cisco Forecasts Mobile Data Deluge
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Cisco Forecasts Mobile Data Deluge

Smartphones and other mobile devices are set to flood the Internet with data in coming years.

From Exile to Eminence: How the Alien Hunters Conquered Astronomy
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From Exile to Eminence: How the Alien Hunters Conquered Astronomy

When Jill Tarter first began to look for aliens, she drew looks askance from her friends and colleagues.

The Embarrassing, Destructive Fight Over Biotech's Big Breakthrough
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The Embarrassing, Destructive Fight Over Biotech's Big Breakthrough

A defining moment in modern biology occurred on July 24, 1978, when biotechnology pioneer Robert Swanson, who had recently co-founded Genentech, brought two young...
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