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'robobarista' Can Figure Out Your New Coffee Machine
A Cornell University research team has developed a deep-learning algorithm that enables a robot to operate a machine it has never seen before.
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An App That Hides Secret Messages in Starcraft-Style Games
Stony Brook University researchers are developing a prototype tool they believe will be able to send encoded messages using real-time strategy computer games.
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Columbia Engineering Professor Invents Video Camera That Runs Without a Battery
Columbia University researchers have invented a self-powered prototype video camera that can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene...
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Europe Faces 800,000 Shortfall in Skilled Ict Workers By 2020
A shortfall in workers with information and communication technology skills could keep Europe from enjoying the benefits of big data and cloud computing.
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Can We Stop Killer Robots? U.N. Meets to Debate Possible Treaty
The United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons this week heard from experts on the subject of killer robots, or "lethal autonomous weapons systems...
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Top 10 Hubble Images
As the famous telescope turns 25, scientists who worked on the project choose their favourite pictures.
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Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets
Mark Bohr peers through the yellow-tinted windows outside D1D, one of Intel's secretive computer chip factories housed at its 300-acre campus here, about a 30-minute...
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Moore's Law Hits 50, but It May Not See 60
Moore's Law turns 50 years old this Sunday. It may not make it to 60.
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Welcome to Robot Hotel
A new generation of autonomous robots will usher in changes in the hospitality industry and beyond.
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Rule Rewrite Aims to Clean Up Scientific Software
The finding seemed counterintuitive: warming in North America was driving plant species to lower elevations—not towards higher, cooler climes, as ecologists had...
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Happy Birthday to Moore's Law
Few revolutions can be said to have lasted for half a century, or to have wrought disruptive change at a predictable pace.
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Amazing Bug-Sized Robots Can Build Microstructures
Researchers at SRI International have developed tiny robots that can manufacture microstructures too small and complex to be built by current machinery or by hand...
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Hackprinceton Attracts Close to 500 Hackers
This year's HackPrinceton event, a semiannual hackathon run by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, had nearly 500 participants.
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Smart Phones Could Be sed to Detect Earthquakes
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to use smartphone global-positioning system data to detect tremors in the earth.
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Survey Shows Most Female Software Developers in 15 Years
The number of female software developers has doubled since Evans Data first examined the group in 2001, according to Evans Data's Developer Marketing 2015 survey...
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Turning Tiny Robots Into Student Recruiters
The Santa Fe Institute, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, hopes to excite high school students about the possibilities of computer programming...
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The Printed Organs Coming to a Body Near You
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.
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Robots Go Deep Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant to Map Radiation
In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.
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Why Zapping the Brain Helps Parkinson's Patients
Sending pulses of electricity through the brain via implanted electrodes—a procedure known as deep brain stimulation—can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's and...
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