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Google: Self-Driving Car Followed 'the Spirit of the Road' Before Accident
Google says it has gained insights concerning a Feb. 14 accident in which one of its autonomous vehicles collided with a city bus in Mountain View, CA.
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.s. Military Wants to Create Cyborg Soldiers
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to create a chip to implant in a soldier's brain to connect it directly to computers.
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Toyota's A.i. Research Efforts Could Mean Cars That Anticipate Traffic, Pedestrian Moves
Toyota is making high-profile investments in artificial intelligence research and development that could yield many benefits in human-machine interaction.
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With AI Advances, Facebook Tests M, Your Newest Assistant
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer says the volume of data Facebook serves to users' News Feeds is increasing about 50 percent annually.
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Study Names the Five Most Hackable Vehicles
A PT&C|LWG Forensic Consulting Services study has named the top five vehicles most susceptible to hacking.
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Get Ready to Live in a Trillion-Device World
University of California, Berkeley professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli predicts the world will be completely suffused with tiny sensors within 10 years.
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MIT Builds a 3D Printer That Can se 10 Materials at Once
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have built a three-dimensional printer capable of building objects with 10 photopolymer materials.
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Nasa Tests Darpa Challenge Robot For Space Manufacturing
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Lab plans to use a robot to build parts in space.
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9 Programming Languages and the Women Who Created Them
Women have made many important and lasting contributions to software development, including the development of programming languages.
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.k. Researchers Are Building Robotic Pants
Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed robotic pants with built-in artificial muscles designed to aid the elderly or people with disabilities.
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Atlas nplugged: DARPA Challenge Robot Gets Major Makeover
Boston Robotics has rebuilt its robot to be used in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge finals in June.
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Fujitsu Develops Compact Rfid For Wearables, Metal
Fujitsu says its new radio frequency identification tag technology can work on surfaces such as metal, which can otherwise impede radio waves.
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Google Says Bye Bye, Captchas, Well, Mostly
Google recently announced it has starting phasing out its CAPTCHAs in favor of using its reCAPTCHA service.
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Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech
U.S. House lawmakers go viral over information diffusion study funded by the feds.
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Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech
The heads of five of the U.S.'s largest computing research organizations are refuting political attacks on research on what makes ideas go viral, particularly on...
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Topcoder Now Has 3,700 Swift Devs
Appirio, which owns and operates the TopCoder platform, says it has registered more than 3,700 Swift developers who are working on 2,000 projects in 110 countries...
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Robot Gets a Driving Lesson For DARPA Challenge
One of the most difficult tasks at next year's U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency robotic challenge finals will be having a robot drive and then get...
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Googlex to Circle the Earth With Internet-Connected Balloons
GoogleX's Project Loon aims to provide wireless Internet access to billions of people living in remote locations by building a ring of balloons around the Earth...
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Virginia Tech Researchers Devise Traffic App to Rival Weather Apps
Researchers are developing a cloud-based application that will use real-time information and historical data to predict when and where traffic is likely to occur...
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