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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is obsessed with SCRABBLE.
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Bot & Dolly and the Rise of Creative Robots
Behind a small cafe in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood stands an unmarked warehouse where the future of human-machine interaction is taking shape.
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Why Google Doesn't Have a Research Lab
Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029
In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...
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Language Barriers
The British scientist and polymath Stephen Wolfram has always had big ambitions.
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Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer Into a Three-Armed Cyborg
Professor Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech has created a robotic drumming prosthesis that can be attached to an amputee to allow for more control and creativity with...
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What Jobs Will the Robots Take?
Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in within two decades, according to new research.
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Ibm to Take Watson Mobile with Developer Challenge
IBM wants to bring its Jeopardy!-winning cognitive computing system Watson to the mobile industry.
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Willow Garage's Last Days
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.
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Bats Inspire 'micro Air Vehicle' Designs
A Virginia Tech study of the inflight movement off fruit bats' wings may be applicable to the design of small flying vehicles.
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
For a glimpse at the future of human-robot interactions, it might be better to look at what's happening in the United States military than analyzing Her, in which...
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain sing Amazon's Cloud
Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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