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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With 'spocs'
Harvard University is moving beyond massive open online courses to small private online courses.
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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Music Site Chatbot Wins AI Loebner Contest
A chatbot called Mitsuku was judged most convincingly human artificial intelligence program of the contestants in the Loebner contest.
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Disney Develops 'magical' Device to Make Fingertips Sing
The Inshin-Den-Shin technology developed at Disney Research transmits sound through the human body, and turns fingertips into speakers.
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The Maps Transforming How We Interact With the World
The modern map is no longer an unwieldy printed publication we wrestle with on some blustery peak, but digital, data-rich, and dynamic.
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Why Bluetooth se Is On the Rise
Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years. Named after Denmark's King Harald "Bluetooth" Blatand, who reigned in the first century AD, it is a technology that...
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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Laser Listening: Could You Eavesdrop on the Guardian?
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...
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How Wearable Technology Could Transform Business
Once upon a time seeing your life flash before your eyes was something people did their best to avoid. The arrival of Google Glass seems to have changed that.
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Bigshot Diy Camera Aims to Teach Kids Tech Basics
Owners of Bigshot's device need to assemble its parts in a specific sequence to make it work. An online guide explains the science behind them.
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Helping the Deaf to 'See' and 'Feel' Sound
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...
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Users of Hidden Net Advised to Ditch Windows
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.
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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Unmasking Organized Crime Networks with Data
One of the big challenges in fighting organized crime is precisely that it is organized. It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility...
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Future Cops: How Technology Is Set to Change Policing
The sci-fi vision of police officers rushing to the scene of a crime before any crime has even been committed may be rather far-fetched but technology is increasingly...
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Huge Holograms Offer Medics More Memorable Classes
A system which uses giant holograms to help medical students master their subject has been pioneered by two London-based junior doctors.
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