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Report from the Drone Convention: Unmanned Vehicles Find New Uses
Drone makers and robotics manufacturers are looking for—and finding—new uses for devices that were once limited to the worlds of science and the military.
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Color Printing Reaches Its ltimate Resolution
The highest possible resolution images—about 100,000 dots per inch—have been achieved, and in full-color, with a printing method that uses tiny pillars a few tens...
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What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? CM Software ncovers Stylistic Core
CMU researchers have developed visual data-mining software that can automatically detect the subtle features that make cities unique, such as street signs, street...
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The Future of the Internet Is…a La Carte
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently asked a team of researchers to develop the key components for a networking architecture that could serve as the backbone...
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Developer Interview: How Haiku Is Building a Better Beos
BeOS, an operating system that was originally designed for Apple hardware but was passed over for NeXT's OpenStep, has found a new life thanks to Haiku.
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Most STEM Degrees to Latinos Granted by Schools in Six States
A recent Excelencia in Education report featured an analysis of institutions awarding certificates or degrees to Latino students in STEM fields.
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Slow, But Rugged, Curiosity's Computer Was Built For Mars
The electronic brain controlling NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has far less horsepower than the microchips typically found in a modern smart phone.
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Nasa pgrades Mars Curiosity Software ... from 350m Miles Away
Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface...
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Nasa Drivers Await Chance to Operate Biggest, Baddest Mars Rover
The San Gabriel Mountains rise over a rough patch of sun-baked volcanic boulders, dusty flagstones, and earthen slopes.
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A Battery That Folds!
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology researchers have developed a super-thin, flexible, all-solid-state battery that could one day lead to phones...
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A Simple Way to Help Cities Monitor Traffic More Accurately
Ohio State University researchers have developed software to identify in-road loop detectors, which are used to monitor traffic, that are prone to splashover, and...
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Engineering Team Develops Chip for Mars Rover
University of Tennessee at Knoxville researchers have designed a tiny microchip that is being used to help control the rover that recently landed on Mars.
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How to Share Personal Data While Keeping Secrets Safe
Cornell University researchers have developed a new mathematical technique that allows for the sharing of large data sets of personal data without compromising...
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Nasa Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi on Sci-Fi, Legos, and Becoming a Meme
As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...
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My Life as a Telecommuting Robot
I was strolling down the hall to a meeting on a Wednesday afternoon when I suddenly blacked out, coming to a halt.
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Dinner and a Robot: My Night Out With a Pr2
On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of dining at the exclusive Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Robot Master
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...
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New Google Tools to Make the Search Engine More All-Knowing
When Google imagines the future of Web search, it sees a search engine that understands human meaning and not just words, that can have a spoken conversation with...
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Microswimmers: Research Shows Micron-Scale Swimming Robots Could Deliver Drugs & Carry Cargo Using Simple Motion
Georgia Tech researchers are using computational models to design swimming micro-robots that can carry cargo and navigate in response to light.
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