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Mind Your Manners, Robot: How Social Cues Influence Human-Robot Interaction
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Mind Your Manners, Robot: How Social Cues Influence Human-Robot Interaction

Trust, along with physical qualities and cultural considerations, is an essential factor in the effectiveness of these robotic peacekeepers.

NSF Grant Will Help Create Machines That Think Like Toddlers
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NSF Grant Will Help Create Machines That Think Like Toddlers

Five-hundred hours of video and 54 million images from over 100 children will inform the design of machine learning models that mimic the toddlers' ability to...

How to Make Large 2-D Sheets
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How to Make Large 2-D Sheets

Researchers have developed a method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.

Devils Go All In on ­se of Analytics (a Poker Expert Helps)
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Devils Go All In on ­se of Analytics (a Poker Expert Helps)

Sunny Mehta has been a musician, a professional poker player and an author, and he has worked in finance.

Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?
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Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?

Answer: It depends on how you define success.

Tomorrow's Terrorist
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Tomorrow's Terrorist

Terrorism is a game of both revolution and evolution.

New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous
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New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous

At the end of a semester teaching an undergraduate math course a few years ago, Cornell Tech researcher and crypto professor Rafael Pass asked his students to fill...

Nano-Trapped Molecules Are Potential Path to Quantum Devices
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Nano-Trapped Molecules Are Potential Path to Quantum Devices

Single atoms or molecules imprisoned by laser light in a doughnut-shaped metal cage could unlock the key to advanced storage devices, computers, and high-resolution...

Finding 911 Callers Instantly
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Finding 911 Callers Instantly

A mobile app from startup RapidSOS automatically sends a caller's location and medical data to dispatch centers.

The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology

"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."

Scientists to Develop Detailed Computational Model to Study Lung Cancer
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Scientists to Develop Detailed Computational Model to Study Lung Cancer

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Van Andel Research Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing a new tool to better study one of the...

The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home
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The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home

The world's most successful home robot, the Roomba, is getting some new skills. The robotic vacuum cleaner is gaining a camera and image-processing software that...

Orchid Showcases Revised Human-Computer Partnerships
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Orchid Showcases Revised Human-Computer Partnerships

The Royal Academy of Engineering in London this month will showcase world-leading Orchid research on human-computer partnerships involving autonomous, intelligent...

Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place
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Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place

How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.

Brynjolfsson and Mcafee: The Jobs that AI Can't Replace
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Brynjolfsson and Mcafee: The Jobs that AI Can't Replace

At the heart of capitalism is the concept of creative destruction.

In Tiny Israel, Startups Reach For Global Success
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In Tiny Israel, Startups Reach For Global Success

While banking a white Audi on Route 443 outside Jerusalem, Shalom Mines nonchalantly let go of the steering wheel and took his foot off the gas.

Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences
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Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences

Infinite Analystics' recommendation software analyzes data from multiple sources to provide a more personalized online-buying experience.

New Approach Needed to Deliver on Technology's Potential in Schools
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New Approach Needed to Deliver on Technology's Potential in Schools

An OECD report says countries that have invested heavily in information and communication technologies for education have seen no noticeable improvement in their...

Advanced Robotics on a Dime
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Advanced Robotics on a Dime

The robotic butlers and sentries of sci-fi fantasies already roam our planet, but you can't have them—not yet.

The Auto and Tech Worlds Are Fighting For the Best Minds in Race For Self-Driving Cars
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The Auto and Tech Worlds Are Fighting For the Best Minds in Race For Self-Driving Cars

Google had all of Silicon Valley to choose from when deciding on a leader for its ambitious self-driving car division.
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