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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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Team Develops New Model For Animated Faces and Bodies
Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a way of modeling dynamic objects such as expressions on faces, gesticulations on bodies...
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Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload
A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found...
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Disney Researchers Add Virtual Touch to the Real World
Researchers at Disney have demonstrated a computer interface that changes the way ordinary, everyday objects feel using a weak electric signal fed through a user's...
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Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you'll see people holding interactive panes of glass.
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Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real
In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked...
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Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center
In the decades following World War II, the U.S. emerged as the leading center of scientific research through the efforts of three types of institutions: its research...
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New Generation of Virtual Humans Helping to Train Psychologists
University of Southern California professor Albert Rizzo has created virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically display...
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Computer Scientist Seeks to Improve Portability of Mobile Device Applications
Virginia Tech computer scientist Eli Tilevich is working to solve the problems of porting applications across mobile devices and platforms.
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Jernej Barbic Releases Comprehensive 3D Deformable Object Library For Free
University of Southern California professor Jernej Barbic recently released Vega, a library of three-dimensional deformable modeling software, for free open source...
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Average Web App Attacked Every Three Days
Do not envy the life of a Web app. It's a brutal, public existence filled with attacks from all sides. In fact, a new report by Imperva sheds some light on this...
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...
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New Router Enhances the Precision of Woodworking
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...
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Appeals Court Oks Warrantless Wiretapping
The federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision...
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Disinformation Flies in Syria's Growing Cyber War
On Sunday, it was a hijacked Reuters Twitter feed trying to create the impression of a rebel collapse in Aleppo. On Monday, it was another account purporting to...
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Tired of Security Problems? Change Rules of Writing Code
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky believes rethinking the basic rules of computer science can dramatically improve computer security, and argues that "there's not...
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