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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Creating Animated Characters Outdoors
A new method for motion capture that works without markers immediately transfers actors' movements to virtual characters in near-real time.
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New Map of Twitterverse Finds 6 Types of Networks
Researchers have found most of the information being discussed on Twitter falls into six distinct patterns or networks.
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Kaist Developed an Extremely Low-Powered, High-Performance Head-Mounted Display Embedding an Augmented Reality Chip
The new K-Glass head-mounted display features an Augmented Reality chip based on the Visual Attention Model, which mimics the human brain's visual data processing...
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Necklace Projectors Will Throw Emails Onto the Floor
Researchers have created a projector embedded in jewelry to enable consumers to use their hands or the floor as a screen for reading email and other digital information...
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How an nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...
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Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.
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The Spy Tech That Might Have Kept El Chapo Invisible For So Long
Joaquin Guzman, better known by the nickname "El Chapo," didn't get to be one of the world's most notorious and elusive drug lords without knowing a thing or two...
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On the Road to Mottronics: Researchers at the Advanced Light Source Find Key to Controlling the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Mott Thin Films
Researchers have found the conducting and insulating phases of ultra-thin films of Mott materials can be controlled by applying an epitaxial strain to the crystal...
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
U.S. military personnel are forming complex emotional ties with robots, in a growing trend that might foreshadow the future of human-robot interactions.
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Virtual Reality Headset Helps Navy Simulate Future Workspaces
Project BlueShark is helping the Navy experiment with a virtual reality headset for applications such as providing ship operators with a 3D view of their environments...
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Google Powers Forest Protection Effort
An online community-oriented map could fill a key role in the effort to protect forests around the world.
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Vibration Energy the Secret to Self-Powered Electronics
A promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go uses a nanogenerator to harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface into power for the...
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How Much Is the Internet of Everything Worth? Cisco Says $19 Trillion
Are you curious why everyone is talking about the Internet of everything?
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Brainy Computer Chip Ditches Digital For Analog
Part of the European Human Brain Project aims to mimic the brain for better computing.
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Nasa's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.
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The Weirdest Thing About the Apple Security Bug Is How Simple It Was
So for the past 18 months, there has been a horrific security hole in many of Apple's products that has allowed "man in the middle" attacks on supposedly secure...
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Nasa's Latest Robot: A Rolling Tangle of Rods That Can Take a Beating
Space-bound robots tend look like tanks and are about as flexible as the Tin Man after a rainstorm.
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The nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.
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