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Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated
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Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated

In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software...

Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military
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Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military

President Donald Trump and his top U.S. military adviser met with Google's CEO about concerns that Silicon Valley's AI collaborations in China may benefit the Chinese...

Wichita State Team Creates Robotic 3D-Printed Hand for Local Boy
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Wichita State Team Creates Robotic 3D-Printed Hand for Local Boy

An engineering team at Wichita State University created a 3D-printed hand for Chase Rawlings, who was born without a fully developed left hand.

Wearable Sensors Mimic Skin to Help With Wound Healing Process
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Wearable Sensors Mimic Skin to Help With Wound Healing Process

Researchers at Binghamton University have developed wearable electrochemical biosensors for a range of human health monitoring applications.

They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option
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They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option

The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system...

NASA Cuts to Europa Mission Anger Planetary Scientists
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NASA Cuts to Europa Mission Anger Planetary Scientists

Planetary scientists are angry about NASA's decision to jettison a key instrument from its upcoming mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

A Robotic Leg Learns to Walk Without Explicit Programming
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A Robotic Leg Learns to Walk Without Explicit Programming

A team of USC researchers have created an AI-controlled robotic limb that can be tripped up and then recover, a task the robot was never explicitly programmed to...

Stanford Helped Pioneer Artificial Intelligence. Now the University Wants to Put Humans at Its Center.
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Stanford Helped Pioneer Artificial Intelligence. Now the University Wants to Put Humans at Its Center.

A Stanford University scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. Others at the university created some of the most significant applications of it, such...

Optimizing the Human-Robot Workplace
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Optimizing the Human-Robot Workplace

An international team will study of how machines and workers will collaborate in 'smart factories' of the future.

Virtual Reality Platforms Emerge as Computer Science Teaching Tool
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Virtual Reality Platforms Emerge as Computer Science Teaching Tool

Schools are beginning to use virtual reality and augmented reality tools with students in computer science lessons, with some classes even teaching students how...

Faster Robots Demoralize Co-Workers
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Faster Robots Demoralize Co-Workers

A research team has found that people consider themselves less competent and expend slightly less effort when competing with and losing to robots in contests for...

iPhones Are Improving Every Year Thanks to an Obscure Japanese Company
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iPhones Are Improving Every Year Thanks to an Obscure Japanese Company

After two decades in development, chipmakers are making a costly bet on a technology that will cram even more transistors onto silicon.

Meet BookBot: Mountain View Library's Newest Robot Helper
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Meet BookBot: Mountain View Library's Newest Robot Helper

The BookBot device makes house calls to pick up library books and return them to the Mountain View Library.

Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
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Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86

Jerry Merryman, a self-taught electrical engineer who helped design the first pocket calculator, died on Feb. 27 in Dallas. He was 86.

­ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona
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­ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona

A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...

Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
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Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State

What are your most important tech tools for reporting in Shanghai, especially with a government known for surveillance?

Pew: Phone Polling in Crisis Again
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Pew: Phone Polling in Crisis Again

The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability...

­S Allies Buck Trump on Huawei
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­S Allies Buck Trump on Huawei

The Trump administration's push to get U.S. allies to block Chinese firm Huawei from their next-generation wireless networks is facing skepticism from political...

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Trump Says He Wants '5G, and even 6G' Wireless Tech. But what Is 6G? 

On Thursday, President Trump urged wireless technology companies to step up their efforts to build next-generation data networks, tweeting that he wanted "5G, and...

700,000 Submunitions Demilitarized by Sandia-Designed Robotics System
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700,000 Submunitions Demilitarized by Sandia-Designed Robotics System

More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the U.S. Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized...
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