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Face Recognition Row Over Right to Identify You in the Street
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"
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Style Software Gives Fashion Tips After Judging What You Wear
New software can judge outfits from a photograph and offer suggestions to make them look more chic.
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
London artist James Bridle has created a tool that can determine how much time users spend on different countries' websites and then compute their algorithmic citizenship...
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
"Where am I?" In the real world, it's an easy question to answer. Online, things can get more complicated.
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Giving Physical Shape to Invisible Signals
When a newly renovated apartment in San Francisco went on the market earlier this year for roughly $8.5 million, its asking price included a somewhat unexpected...
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Gadgets Powered Wirelessly at Home With a Simple Wi-Fi Router
A multi-university team of researchers has developed a system that can power electrical devices with just a wireless router's signal.
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Your Brain's nique Response to Words Can Reveal Your Identity
New research suggests security systems could use brainwaves to verify the identity of individuals.
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Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man to Sip a Beer at His Own Pace
Researchers placed an implant in the posterior parietal cortex of a man paralyzed from the neck down, who then controlled a robotic arm with his mind.
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Your Brain's nique Response to Words Can Reveal Your Identity
Watch your language. Words mean different things to different people—so the brainwaves they provoke could be a way to identify you.
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Say Hello to Machines That Read Your Emotions to Make You Happy
EmoSPARK is an artificial intelligence-based device that can gauge a person's mood based on what they say and how they say it.
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Human vs Machine As Top Poker Pros Take On AI
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...
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Proto Quantum Computer Inspired By Victorians Gets a Speed Boost
Quantum computers should theoretically outpace ordinary ones, but attempts to build a speedy quantum machine have so far come up short. Now an approach based on...
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Can We Stop Killer Robots? U.N. Meets to Debate Possible Treaty
The United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons this week heard from experts on the subject of killer robots, or "lethal autonomous weapons systems...
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Robots Go Deep Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant to Map Radiation
In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.
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Human Cruise Control App Steers People on Their Way
For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
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Brain Compass Implant Gives Blind Rats Psychic Gps
Who needs sight to get around when you've got a digital compass in your head?
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Eek! How Your Face Reveals Your Body's Real Age
A new study used three-dimensional facial images to predict biological age in a human population, to detect those aging quickly and slowly.
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.
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Five Medieval Alternatives to Sat Nav
During the Middle Ages, the Vikings set sail in longships to raid faraway settlements and plunder their riches, but how did they find their way?
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