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Driverless Car: Google Awarded .s. Patent For Technology
The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel.
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How seful Is a Captured Drone?
An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it.
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Intel Shows Off Its Knights Corner One Teraflops Chip
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on the Internet's Future
Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the Internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.
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Future Computers Could Rewire Themselves
Future microchips may have only one type of component, capable of rewiring itself to do different jobs. Researchers from Northwestern University in the U.S. have...
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Robot Wars 'Still a Long Way Off'
"I'll be back" said Arnold Schwarzenegger as cyborg-assassin the Terminator, back from the year 2029 to carry out a murder in 1984. But it seems that, when it...
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Wales' Rugby World Cup Team sing Swansea ni App
The Wales national rugby team is using MatchPad, a Swansea University-developed iPad application, to simplify match information and help understand the team's performance...
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...
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Will We All Be Tweaking Our Own Genetic Code?
You have to wonder what's going on in the DNA of Harvard genetics professor George Church. What extra bit of code does he have that the rest of us don't? If genes...
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New Emotion Detector Sees When We're Lying
A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerized system uses a simple video camera, a high...
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'smart' Cctv Could Track Rioters
Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to recognise specific types of behaviour, such as someone holding a...
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When Algorithms Control the World
If you were expecting some kind warning when computers finally get smarter than us, then think again.
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How Engineers Create Artificial Sounds to Fool S
Hundreds of items have their acoustics deliberately tweaked to make us happy, according to Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of...
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Mobile 'Pinging' Claim Raises Legal Questions
A former News of the World journalist's allegation the newspaper paid police to track mobile phones raises serious questions about the U.K.'s eavesdropping laws...
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'Talking' Cars Could Reduce Motorway Pile-ps
Scientists from the University of Bologna in Italy have developed software that lets cars "communicate" with one another on the road.
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IBM at 100: From Typewriters to the Cloud
Say IBM—and you probably still think of computers. But today, the firm that was once all about hardware, makes its living from more intangible technology.
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U.k. Seeks Cyber Security Champions
Britons who can defend the nation's networks armed only with a keyboard are being sought in a national competition.
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Code-Cracking Machine Returned to Life
The National Museum of Computing has finished restoring a Tunny machine—a key part of Allied code-cracking during World War II.
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Helmet Camera Technology Enables Live Front-Line Video
Helmet-mounted cameras mean live video can be sent direct from the front line back to headquarters. This technology enabled military and intelligence chiefs to...
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