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Alternatives For the Mouse-Averse
Controlling computers with gestures offers greater potential than a mouse ever could.
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Robotic Brain 'learns' Skills from the Internet
Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.
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Robotics: How Machines See the World
Can you tell the difference between a human and a soda can?
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Eight in 10 Enterprises Turn to Citizen Developers For Innovation
A recent survey found that 80% of enterprises are forming partnerships with groups such as citizen developers to close to the skills gap for application development...
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R Programming Language Gains on Traditional Statistics Packages
A recent survey gauging the popularity of statistical software programs found the R programming language is rapidly gaining on traditional statistics packages.
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Johann Receives National Science Foundation Grant For Computer Science Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to computer science professor Patricia Johann to support her research in relational parametricity.
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Research Paves Way for Cyborg Moth 'Biobots'
Methods being developed to electronically manipulate the flight muscles of moths could lead to remote-controlled "biobots" for emergency search and rescue operations...
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The Cookies You Can't Crumble
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...
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Galileo: What Does a More Accurate Sat-Nav System Mean?
With the planned launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana later this month, Europe is pushing ahead with its own satellite-navigation system...
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Why the Future of Education Is Open
edX CEO Anant Agarwal says the online education platform is using open source and big data to help educate millions of people.
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Nasa Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit
NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close...
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Rosetta: Landing Site Search Narrows
Using detailed information collected by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, five locations have been identified...
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Meet the 'swarmies'--Robotics Answer to Bugs
Researchers are developing software that instructs small, wheeled robots to work together in searching an area for a particular material.
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Intelligent Navigation System to Personalize Shopping Trips
Researchers are developing an indoor navigation system to help improve people's experiences at supermarkets, hospitals, and parks.
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For Sale: Systems That Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone sers Go Around the Globe
Privately owned surveillance companies are offering systems capable of tracking the location of any cellphone user to governments around the globe.
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For Google's Self-Driving Cars, It's a Bumpy Trip
The future of Google's pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles is being put into question by new California rules that forbid such vehicles from driving on public...
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Next For Virtual Reality: Video, Without the Games
Nearly all the hype around virtual reality—much of it fanned by Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, the headset maker—is about how the technology can...
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Hacking Traffic Lights With a Laptop Is Easy
Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...
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China Targets Own Operating System to Take on Likes of Microsoft, Google
China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said...
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