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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Navy Puzzle Challenge Blends Social Media, Cryptology
The U.S. Navy has announced the winners of its Project Architeuthis cryptology puzzle game challenge, designed for Navy cryptology technicians.
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ncanny Valley
Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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Robots As Furniture?
Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.
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Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.
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Neuromorphic Computing Gets Ready For the (Really) Big Time
A technology inspired by biological principles but 'steamrolled for decades' prepares to take off as Moore's Law approaches its long-anticipated end.
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Hitachi Unveils Robot With a Sense of Humor
Hitachi engineers say they have created an android robot with a sense of humor.
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How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik's Cube Doodle
Today Google launched one of its coolest doodles yet: a 3-D interactive Rubik's Cube.
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Glasses-Free 3D Projector
Researchers have developed a glasses-free, multi-perspective, three-dimensional video screen.
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Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens
Touch screens are ubiquitous on tablets and smartphones, but their flat glass surfaces can hinder close reading and accurate typing.
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Tau Researchers Develop a Smarter Smartphone Camera
Researchers say they have developed a smartphone camera that bridges the gap between the cellphone camera and the digital still camera.
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Disney Invents Robots That Swarm Into Colorful Animations
Walt Disney pioneered the art of animation and pushed the boundaries of robotics with his audio-animatronic presidents, but now the research lab that bears hisETH...
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The Plug-and-Play Luxury Home
When it is completed in early 2018, Muse, a 49-story luxury-condo development in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will have an automated parking system with push-button...
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Watch the Earth From Space, Live!
It doesn't get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).
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5 New Record-Breaking Roller Coasters That Will Terrify You This Summer
Taller, faster, steeper, and more stomach-dropping amusement park rides are opening across the country.
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Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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niv. of Central Florida Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
The University of Central Florida won the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio.
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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