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This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets
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This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets

Serial entrepreneur Andrew "Bunnie" Huang believes that consumer product companies should make their hardware designs publicly available so that anyone can study...

Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently
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Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently

An algorithm developed at Brown University allows robots ask questions to get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.

­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks
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­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks

A new game theory algorithm could one day help detect election tampering.

Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics
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Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics

In a advance for microelectronics, University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers have established electrical surface treatment of conducting thin films as a physical...

Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias
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Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias

Employers increasingly rely on datasets and algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired, or promoted. But algorithms that rely on inaccurate, biased, or unrepresentative...

Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely
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Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely

A smartphone app that uses deep learning lets people with Parkinson's disease test their symptoms at home in just 4 minutes.

STEM Day at the Lab Gives Underserved Students a Taste of Science
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STEM Day at the Lab Gives Underserved Students a Taste of Science

The recent STEM Day at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was designed to encourage students underserved or disadvantaged communities to explore careers in...

Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?
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Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?

Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to the shelves of Walmart, where he...

Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space
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Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown how a miniscule vapor-recoil force can be harnessed to cool high-power microelectronics, even in...

Brain-Controlled Robots
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Brain-Controlled Robots

A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Boston University has created a feedback system that lets people communicate with...

Model Considers Personality to Help Manage Smartphone Interruptions
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Model Considers Personality to Help Manage Smartphone Interruptions

A Rutgers University study reveals that personality traits influence and help predict a user's receptiveness to smartphone notifications.

Forget Welding. The Hottest New Vocational Schools Do Digital Design
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Forget Welding. The Hottest New Vocational Schools Do Digital Design

"Ten years ago no one even knew what user experience design was," says John Paul Rowan, vice president at the Savannah College of Art and Design. No longer. Like...

Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.

Printing Data-Driven Wearables That Mimic Nature
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Printing Data-Driven Wearables That Mimic Nature

MIT lecturer Jessica Rosenkrantz writes programs that mimick processes in nature to "grow" objects that can be digitally fabricated.

Amazon Deepens University Ties in Artificial Intelligence Race
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Amazon Deepens University Ties in Artificial Intelligence Race

Amazon.com Inc has launched a new program to help students build capabilities into its voice-controlled assistant Alexa, the company told Reuters, the latest move...

Online Platform Plays Matchmaker For Researchers Seeking Collaborators
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Online Platform Plays Matchmaker For Researchers Seeking Collaborators

The newly launched Research4Impact networking site connects people from the academic, nonprofit, and government sectors who are interested in collaborating.

Laid-Off It Workers Worry ­.s. Is Losing Tech Jobs to Outsourcing
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Laid-Off It Workers Worry ­.s. Is Losing Tech Jobs to Outsourcing

IT workers laid off by the University of California, San Francisco and replaced by an Indian outsourcing firm are concerned that high-paying positions may be a...

Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Turning Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations
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Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Turning Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations

A new technique pioneered by University of Washington engineers uses ambient radio signals to turn everyday objects into FM radio stations.

Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound
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Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound

No place on this planet is more inhospitable to human life than the deep oceans.

Scientists Demo Physical Design of Non-Deterministic ­niversal Turing Machine
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Scientists Demo Physical Design of Non-Deterministic ­niversal Turing Machine

Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown that it is possible to build a non-deterministic universal Turing machine using DNA molecules.
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