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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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A Light Bulb Goes On, Over the Mall
Among the many promises of the Internet of Things—a network of Wi-Fi-connected devices and equipment managed with smartphones—is the automation of everyday life...
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The New Laws of Explosive Networks
Last week, United Airlines grounded nearly 5,000 flights when its computer system crashed.
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A Wi-Fi Reflector Chip To Speed p Wearables
Whether you're tracking your steps, monitoring your health or sending photos from a smart watch, you want the battery life of your wearable device to last as long...
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Researchers Open Repository For 'dark Data'
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding an effort to develop a one-stop shop to house researchers' data sets after they publish their papers.
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the gliest Corners of the Internet
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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Vibrant Pluto Stuns Scientists
They are 5 billion kilometres from the Sun in the dim, far-flung outskirts of the Solar System, but Pluto and its large moon Charon turn out to be astonishingly...
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...
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Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering...
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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—with Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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Deep-Learning AI Is Taking Over Tech. What Is It?
Have you ever begun a Google search, only to click on the words the box lays before you?
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a $100-Million Boost
You could say that the silence has been deafening.
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The People 'possessed' By Computers
Sophia Ben-Achour looks like a typical London student. She has short, brown hair, dancing eyes and a wide smile.
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The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How Nasa Nearly Missed It
Planetary scientists are coloring in the family portrait of our solar system as close-up photographs and observations stream back from Pluto, a world three billion...
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...
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The Square Kilometre Array: Radio Silence in Western Australia For Most Powerful Telescope in History
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...
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