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MIT Cheetah Robot Lands the Running Jump
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MIT Cheetah Robot Lands the Running Jump

MIT researchers have trained a robotic cheetah to see and jump over hurdles while maintaining an average running speed of 5 miles per hour.

Darpa's Online Games Produce Thousands of Formal Verification Annotations
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Darpa's Online Games Produce Thousands of Formal Verification Annotations

DARPA has launched a second round of online games to extend its success using crowdsourced games as an effective means of producing software annotations

'deep Learning' Will Soon Give ­S Super-Smart Robots
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'deep Learning' Will Soon Give ­S Super-Smart Robots

Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Raptor Code Selected For Next-Gen Supercomputer Readiness Project
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Raptor Code Selected For Next-Gen Supercomputer Readiness Project

Raptor, a turbulent combustion code developed at Sandia National Laboratories, was selected as a partnership project for the CAAR program focused on optimizing...

Spiraling Laser Pulses Could Change the Nature of Graphene
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Spiraling Laser Pulses Could Change the Nature of Graphene

A new study predicts that researchers could use spiraling pulses of laser light to change the nature of graphene, paving the way for experiments on new states...

At Mit, Mastering the Science of Working from Home
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At Mit, Mastering the Science of Working from Home

A group of employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's business school is experimenting with policies that could usher in a new era of flexible work...

A New Kind of Wood Chip: Collaboration Yields Biodegradable Computer Chips
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A New Kind of Wood Chip: Collaboration Yields Biodegradable Computer Chips

In an effort to alleviate the environmental burden of electronic devices, researchers have developed a semiconductor chip made almost entirely of wood.

Helping Robots Put It All Together
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Helping Robots Put It All Together

An algorithm developed at MIT lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.

Behind the Downfall at Blackberry
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Behind the Downfall at Blackberry

Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...

Speak, Toy! Welcome to the Age of Chatting with Your Teddy Bear
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Speak, Toy! Welcome to the Age of Chatting with Your Teddy Bear

Sitting in his company's small Midtown Manhattan office, JP Benini speaks casually into his smartphone. "Hello!"

Speak, Toy! Welcome to the Age of Chatting with Your Teddy Bear
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Speak, Toy! Welcome to the Age of Chatting with Your Teddy Bear

Sitting in his company's small Midtown Manhattan office, JP Benini speaks casually into his smartphone. "Hello!"

Harvesting Tech Extends Smart Phone Charge by 30 Percent
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Harvesting Tech Extends Smart Phone Charge by 30 Percent

Technology developed at Ohio State University captures wasted cell phone energy and feeds it back to battery to extend battery life by 30 percent on a single charge...

One Step Closer to a Single-Molecule Device
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One Step Closer to a Single-Molecule Device

Columbia Engineering researchers have created a single-molecule diode, a long-term miniaturization goal for electronic devices.

Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp
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Mit's Humanoid Robot Goes to Robot Boot Camp

As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.

An Npr Reporter Raced a Machine to Write a News Story. Who Won?
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An Npr Reporter Raced a Machine to Write a News Story. Who Won?

Even the most creative jobs have parts that are pretty routine—tasks that, at least in theory, can be done by a machine. Take, for example, being a reporter.

Firefox Maker Battles to Save the Internet—and Itself
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Firefox Maker Battles to Save the Internet—and Itself

In Silicon Valley, most pioneers pursue big ideas and giant personal fortunes with equal zeal. Then there’s Mozilla, an innovation dynamo that refuses to get rich...

How to Make Continuous Rolls of Graphene
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How to Make Continuous Rolls of Graphene

Graphene could move out of the lab and into commercial products with the help of a new scalable, cost-effective role-to-role manufacturing process.

Precision Nanobatteries by the Billions
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Precision Nanobatteries by the Billions

Tiny batteries made in nanopores manage ions and electrons for high power and extended life.

How Stargazing Became a Numbers Game
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How Stargazing Became a Numbers Game

People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational...

Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now

In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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