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Machine Learning Opens p New Ways to Help Disabled People
Companies are developing and launching machine-learning technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
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Virtual Lemonade Sends Color and Taste to a Glass of Water
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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nexpected, Star-Spangled Find May Lead to Advanced Electronics
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have developed a material that can transform from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array...
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Quadruped Robot Exhibits Spontaneous Changes in Step with Speed
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have successfully demonstrated that a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns...
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Seeing Sound
Texas A&M University professor Tim Davis uses sparse matrix algorithms to create works of electronic art by visualizing music.
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sing Virtual Reality to Catch a Real Ball
Disney researchers have developed ways to enhance virtual experiences involving interactions with physical objects by showing how a person using a virtual reality...
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'girls in Stem' Culture Is Failing Both Girls and STEM
Cleoniki Kesidis writes that a culture that tries to encourage girls to enter science, technology, engineering, and math fields guilt-tripped her into pursuing...
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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Research Leads to a Golden Discovery For Wearable Technology
Missouri S&T researchers have developed a way to "grow" thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon and use them as substrates on which to grow other...
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Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working to make the process of a robot autonomously grasping an object easier.
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Wpi Researcher Wants to Transform Your Commute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Yanhua Li has proposed an alternative urban transit system that uses a hub-and-spoke configuration with shared shuttles...
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A Professor Built an AI Teaching Assistant For His Courses--and It Could Shape the Future of Education
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ashok Goel has created an artificially intelligent teaching assistant.
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How Aristotle Created the Computer
Modern computers would not exist without the influence of Aristotelean principles.
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Mathematicians Create Warped Worlds in Virtual Reality
"It feels like the entire universe is within a sphere that is maybe within a couple metres' radius," says topologist Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University...
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The .s. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...
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DARPA Wants to Cultivate the ltimate Transistor of the Future
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this month will present the Dynamic Range-enhanced Electronics and Materials program, which aims to develop a...
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Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is supporting research on deciphering the timing and sequences of bird calls.
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