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How to Think About Drones
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How to Think About Drones

Consider David. The shepherd lad steps up to face in single combat the Philistine giant Goliath.

Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' And 'off'
From ACM Careers

Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' And 'off'

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered a novel and complex visual circuit in a dragonfly's brain that could one day help to improve vision...

Robot Classes in China Set Students ­p For Future Careers
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Robot Classes in China Set Students ­p For Future Careers

Many primary and middle schools in China are providing robot education to students. Lego, the largest educational robot provider in China, says there are now...

Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost

It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.

The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next

If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...

Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot
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Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot

Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...

Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot
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Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot

Rodney Brooks' startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment.

Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer
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Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer

As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.

One Year on Mars: Curiosity Rover's Chief Scientist John Grotzinger Speaks Out
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One Year on Mars: Curiosity Rover's Chief Scientist John Grotzinger Speaks Out

One year ago Monday (Aug. 5), NASA's Mars rover Curiosity pulled off a stunning and unprecedented landing inside Gale Crater, kicking off a two-year surface mission...

Top Robotic Helicopter Team Sets Sights on Impossible Mission
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Top Robotic Helicopter Team Sets Sights on Impossible Mission

If the mission sounds impossible, that's because it is — at least with today's technology.

Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California
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Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California

On a pebbled field built next to a parking lot, a small rover scoots forward and expels a long sheet of polyimide plastic from its backside, the third film the...

Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet
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Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet

Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded.

Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
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Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine

Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...

Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else
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Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else

At Microsoft's recent Faculty Summit, Bill Gates expressed his views on a range of topics, including education, patents, computer science, and machine learning....

Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning

Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...

AI System as Smart as a Four-Year-Old
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AI System as Smart as a Four-Year-Old

Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems and...

­.s. Public Supports ­se of ­nmanned Aircraft Systems
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­.s. Public Supports ­se of ­nmanned Aircraft Systems

A new report shows that a majority of the U.S. population supports the use of unmanned aircraft, or drones, for homeland security, fighting crime, search and rescue...

Robotic Fish Is Ready For Action
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Robotic Fish Is Ready For Action

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has developed a robotic fish that mimics the...

­nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast
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­nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast

The next army of unmanned drones are scurrying beneath the ocean's surface.

Drone Technology Used For Pilotless Fighter Aircraft
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Drone Technology Used For Pilotless Fighter Aircraft

Under a huge semi-opaque dome and with heavy security in attendance, visitors to the Paris Air Show peer at a strange looking shape.
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