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China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group
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China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group

China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics...

Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself
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Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself

New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously — the first time autonomous target...

America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.
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America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.

Silicon Valley may be powered by organic kale, but when Chinese tech gurus gather at 3W, a coffee shop-slash-incubator in the Chinese capital, they want sunflower...

Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary

There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...

The ­nsung Heroes of Crispr
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The ­nsung Heroes of Crispr

When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.

Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads Cash Around
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Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads Cash Around

A yearlong digital training course for Irish high school teachers started in 2014.

Nsa Boss Says ­.s. Cyber Troops Are Nearly Ready
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Nsa Boss Says ­.s. Cyber Troops Are Nearly Ready

The director of the National Security Agency says his first few dedicated cyber troops will be operational by early fall but the nation can't wait for the full...

Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories
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Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories

The robotic production line is churning along just fine when Kevin Jones plugs a USB stick into the control computer.

This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals

When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.

Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference
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Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference

Research, and getting to the eventual results of that research, can take quite a bit of time.

Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits
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Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits

Intelligence Group Wants to Use Wearables to Assess Agent Recruits

DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker

Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...

How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins

On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.

Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board
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Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board

The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, on Wednesday replaced its board with a new slate of directors as part of a larger shake-up after allegations...

Reconstructing the First Atomic Bomb Test from a Chunk of Scorched Earth
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Reconstructing the First Atomic Bomb Test from a Chunk of Scorched Earth

If the CSI family of television shows has blunted your appetite for impossibly omniscient crime scene analysis, consider the real, and very serious, science of...

Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics

Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."

Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
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Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter

Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.

Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.
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Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.

Memory-foam mattresses. The breathing devices firefighters wear. And infrared ear thermometers that give near-instant readings.

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas

As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History
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­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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