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Blind People 'see' Microscope Images Using Touch-Feedback Device
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
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Brainwaves Could Act as Your Password--but Not If You're Drunk
Rochester Institute of Technology have found that although brainwave readings can accurately authenticate someone's identity about 94% of the time, there could...
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Army of 350,000 Star Wars Bots Found Lurking on Twitter
Researchers at University College London in the U.K. discovered a Twitter botnet that could be comprised of more than 350,000 accounts.
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Transistor Stretchier Than Skin For ltra-Flexible Wearable Tech
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...
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Drones Inspired By Insects Could Keep Flying Even When Damaged
Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands programmed a robotic fly to mimic insects with different levels of wing damage, enabling them to examine...
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Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
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Quantum Computers Ditch All the Lasers For Easier Engineering
Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have replaced the millions of lasers in traditional quantum computing systems with several static magnets...
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Lazy Coders Are Training Artificial Intelligences to Be Sexist
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
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AI Learns to Predict the Future By Watching 2 Million Videos
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
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Intelligence Rethought: Ais Know s, but Don't Think Like S
Machine-learning artificial intelligences become more capable with experience, but the trade-off is a lack of understanding about the nature of their intelligence...
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Google's Deepmind AI Can Lip-Read Tv Shows Better Than a Pro
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...
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Quantum Computers Can Talk to Each Other via a Photon Translator
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.
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Glasses Make Face Recognition Tech Think You're Milla Jovovich
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...
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Pasta Spirals Link Neutron Stars and the Machinery of Your Cells
The conditions are vastly different, but the pasta is the same.
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Paralyzed People Inhabit Distant Robot Bodies With Thought Alone
The European Union's VERE project aims to dissolve the boundary between the human body and a surrogate.
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Playing Grand Theft Auto Can Teach Autonomous Cars How to Drive
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.
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Your Home's Online Gadgets Could Be Hacked By ltrasound
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...
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