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Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk
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Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk

The US military has long taken the role of traffic cop in space: monitoring satellites, tracking debris and, in recent years, warning satellite operators and foreign...

Why Do Infants Smile? Researchers ­se Robots to Find an Answer
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Why Do Infants Smile? Researchers ­se Robots to Find an Answer

A team of computer scientists, roboticists, and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: babies smile with a purpose — to make the...

Why the Next Steve Jobs Will Be a Woman
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Why the Next Steve Jobs Will Be a Woman

More women than ever before are cracking the ranks of the United States' top entrepreneurs, indicating that the next iconic tech entrepreneur could be a woman.

Why IT Budgets Are Up But Hiring is Down
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Why IT Budgets Are Up But Hiring is Down

The latest quarterly "Reality Check" survey from TEKsystems suggests that IT budgets are on the rise, but hiring expectations are significantly lower than they...

Digital Textbook Analytics Can Predict Student Outcomes
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Digital Textbook Analytics Can Predict Student Outcomes

Reynol Junco, associate professor in Iowa State University's School of Education, says digital textbooks can provide real-time analytics to help faculty assess...

Why Europe Isn't Creating Any Googles or Facebooks
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Why Europe Isn't Creating Any Googles or Facebooks

Micha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his first technology startup there, but he never forgot the atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San Francisco,...

Tools Aim to Keep Solar-Powered Robots in Action
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Tools Aim to Keep Solar-Powered Robots in Action

Iowa State University researchers are developing power-management technologies that would allow land- and air-based robots to monitor solar conditions so they...

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...
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