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Ant Colonies Help Evacuees in Disaster Zones
Researchers in Japan have developed a system that can map escape routes for disasters based on the behavior of ant colonies.
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Google ses Algorithms to Create Slr-Like Photos
Google has developed an algorithm that can generate photographic images with a depth of field similar to pictures taken by a single lens reflex camera.
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Trouble with Russia, Trouble with the Law: Inside Europe's Digital Crime Unit
Four black brick towers search upwards to an empty grey sky.
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Biometric Surveillance Means Someone Is Always Watching
Incrimination by selfie can happen.
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Watch the Astounding Dexterity of Honda's Dancing Humanoid Robot
Even in today's rapidly evolving world of technology, there are few things that make your jaw drop when you see them in real life.
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Combs of Light Accelerate Communication
Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources can enable the transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over hundreds of kilometers.
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Hopkins Code Cracks Baseball Scheduling
A new system fulfills all of a baseball league's scheduling rules, and as many of the teams' requests and preferences as possible, using thousands of lines of code...
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Soft Wear: Computer Simulated Design Is Tailoring the Future Fashion Industry
Researchers have developed software that can simulate the making of complex clothing.
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Americans Wary of Futuristic Science, Tech
While the majority of Americans surveyed think tech developments will make life in the next half-century better, 30 percent said they would make life worse.
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Chess Robots to Cause Judgment Day?
Autonomous systems must be designed and deployed very carefully or they could develop antisocial and potentially harmful behavior, according to a study.
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Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics
Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy's lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.
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Five Wonder Materials That Could Change the World
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...
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Cyber Cops: Target Hackers May Takes Years to Find
Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target's computer systems last December.
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The Plot to Kill the Password
Last Friday, Samsung's new Galaxy S5 arrived with an unexpected and underhyped feature.
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Why Nobody Can Tell Whether the World's Biggest Quantum Computer Is a Quantum Computer
For the past several years, a Canadian company called D-Wave Systems has been selling what it says is the largest quantum computer ever built.
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Mit Transform Project Gives Shape to Human-Object Interplay
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Tangible Media Group recently demonstrated a tabletop that becomes a dynamic display.
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Mit's Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computational social scientist Alex Pentland's research has lately focused on social physics.
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