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Gps and the World's First 'space War'
Twenty-five years ago U.S.-led Coalition forces launched the world’s first "space war" when they drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.
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Researchers Index Dark Web, Find Most of It Contains Illegal Material
King's College London researchers recently conducted a study to discover how much of Tor is devoted to illegal content.
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Senior Citizens May Accept Robot Helpers, but Fear Robot Masters
Research on senior citizens indicates they would likely accept robots as helpers and entertainment providers, but worry about giving up too much control to them...
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'on-Ramping' Paves the Way For Women Scientists, Engineers to Return to Academia
Researchers interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers...
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'social Ai' Lets Mario and Luigi Learn How to Save the Princess on Their Own
A new development in artificial intelligence harnesses the power of social interactions to learn more about the world.
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Smart Thermostat Puts Energy Money Saving at Household Fingertips
University of Southampton researchers have developed a prototype "smart" thermostat that lets users control their heating on a cost basis, rather than by temperature...
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Why We Won't Trust Robot Cars Until They Drive Just Like US
Eight separate research projects into autonomous vehicles will receive financial support from the U.K. government.
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Google Deepmind AI Navigates a Doom-Like 3D Maze Just By Looking
Google DeepMind just entered the 90s. Fresh off their success in playing the ancient game of Go, DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence can navigate a 3D maze...
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Better Brain Imaging Could Show Computers a Smarter Way to Learn
Machine learning is an extremely clever approach to computer programming.
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Showdown in Europe Over Privacy Has .s. Firms Ducking For Cover
The free flow of data across the Atlantic, the lifeblood of modern business dealings, faces an uncertain future, despite a belated, high-level deal between European...
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How to Get Online in Cuba
Every afternoon, crowds of Cubans gather outside Havana's top hotels—mob boss Meyer Lansky's favorite Nacional de Cuba, Ernest Hemingway's old haunt Ambos Mundos...
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Virtual City Walkthroughs Help to Find Pedestrian Death Traps
Columbia University researchers are using home-built software to examine Google Street View images to identify locations in New York City where pedestrians are...
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World's First Single-Atom Optical Switch Fabricated
Researchers from ETH Zurich Switzerland have fabricated the world's first single-atom optical switch.
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Software Adapts Speech to Ambient Noise Level
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology researchers have developed software that significantly improves the intelligibility of speech.
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Robotic Fingers With a Gentle Touch
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a soft robotic gripper that can bend and pick up delicate objects using electroadhesion...
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a virtually hack-proof radio-frequency identification chip.
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Europe's Top Court Mulls Legality of Hyperlinks to Copyrighted Content
Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
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Meet the Soft, Cuddly Robots of the Future
In 2007, Cecilia Laschi asked her father to catch a live octopus for her seaside lab in Livorno, Italy.
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