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Watch These Mini-Robots Self-Assemble Into Different Shapes
Harvard University's Self-Organizing Systems Research group has developed a "large-scale robot collective" that can self-assemble into different shapes.
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DARPA Wants to Create Secure Data-Sharing Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching the Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge project.
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Semiconductor Eyed For Next-Generation 'power Electronics'
Purdue University researchers have demonstrated the high-performance potential of an experimental transistor made of beta gallium oxide.
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Searching Deep and Dark: Building a Google For the Less Visible Parts of the Web
Apache Tika could help with the effort to teach computers to recognize, index, and search all the different types of material that is available online.
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He Helped Create the 'google Brain.' Here's What He Thinks About AI Now
Trucks that can drive themselves along delivery routes. Computers capable of defeating world champions in a notoriously complex game. Apps that can translate sentences...
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...
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Black Holes Hide in Our Cosmic Backyard
Monster black holes sometimes lurk behind gas and dust, hiding from the gaze of most telescopes. But they give themselves away when material they feed on emits...
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Ua-Developed Avatar Is Helping to Screen New Arrivals at Bucharest Airport
University of Arizona researchers have developed a virtual border agent to question international travelers and flag those that seem suspicious.
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Jill Watson, Round Three
The Georgia Institute of Technology is beginning its third semester using a virtual teaching assistant system in an online course about artificial intelligence....
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Innovators Wanted: Machine Learning, Iot Jobs on the Rise
The job market for machine learning and artificial intelligence-related positions is heating up.
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Taking Graphics Cards Beyond Gaming
A new mathematical solver enables the graphics cards found in gaming computers to solve computationally intensive mathematical problems.
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New Camera Can See Around Corners
Researchers at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China have built a single-pixel camera that can capture images of objects even when they are not in direct view.
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Air Force Tests Ibm's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
Satellites, aircraft, and growing numbers of drones—the U.S. Air Force has a lot of electronic eyes in the sky.
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The Many-Moons Theory
Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the moon is experiencing a crisis.
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Finding Trust and Understanding in Autonomous Technologies
Whether autonomous technologies become truly ubiquitous will depend on how much they can be trusted.
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
Missouri University of Science & Technology researchers are studying electronic components that can be elongated or twisted, which could soon be used to power a...
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Utsa Study Shows How Phishing Scams Thrive on Overconfidence
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have examined overconfidence in detecting phishing emails, based on the theory that most people believe they are...
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Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
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