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The Agency
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The Agency

Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got...

Getting 'physical' and Emotional in Virtual Reality
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Getting 'physical' and Emotional in Virtual Reality

If you think about virtual reality, you probably think of it as the place where gamers don an Oculus headset and go shoot up enemies in 3D or travel space.

Facebook to Open AI Lab in Paris
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Facebook to Open AI Lab in Paris

Facebook is to expand its artificial intelligence research, opening its first lab outside the US, in Paris.

Google Wants to Turn Your Clothes Into a Computer
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Google Wants to Turn Your Clothes Into a Computer

If you thought it was only a matter of time before Google tried to turn your pants into a computer, well, guess what, you were right.

The Inside Story of Google's Bizarre Plunge Into Vr
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The Inside Story of Google's Bizarre Plunge Into Vr

David Coz worked in Google's Paris office, but what he really wanted was a job at the mothership in Silicon Valley.

Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?
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Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?

Ivan Poupyrev looks like he's playing the world's smallest violin.

Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet
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Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet

Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.

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...

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...

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!"

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 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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