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Datacasting: What Will You Buy Tomorrow?
Forecasters increasingly are employing sophisticated tools to analyze vast volumes of data to make predictions. To test the latest forecasting technology, New...
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Smart Software Spots Swaying Risk of a Crushing Crowd
The Fraunhofer Institute's Barbara Krausz has developed a system for determining when crowds have become too large by observing the way people sway slowly from...
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Mapping the Most Complex Object in the Known niverse
It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing...
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'Fluid Cloak' to Help Submarines Leave No Wake
Super-stealthy submarines may one day glide through the water without creating a wake, if a plan to channel fluid intelligently around objects can be made to...
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Crowdsourced Online Learning Gives Robots Human Skills
Roboticists at Brown University and other institutions are experimenting with using crowdsourcing to teach robots more general skills.
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Robots Use Kinect to Understand Our World
Cornell University researchers are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room.
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Buy Now or Wait For a Sale? Let the Computer Decide
Microsoft researchers have developed Prodcast, a tool that helps consumers decide whether to buy a new product now or wait for prices to fall.
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Cracking the Code of Machine Translation
University of Southern California scientists have developed a machine-translation technique that treats translation as a cryptographic challenge rather than a matter...
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Fire-Breathing Dragon Roars to Life
The first practical technique for recreating the sound of fire, based on its behavior, for virtual worlds has been devised by Jeff Chadwick and colleagues at Cornell...
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Future of Virtual Reality: What Pregnancy Feels Like
Men can gain a better understanding of what women experience during pregnancy by wearing a new device developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology...
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Evolutionary Babel Was in Southern Africa
Where did humanity utter its first words? A new linguistic analysis attempts to rewrite the story of Babel by borrowing from the methods of genetic analysis—and...
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Store Data in Your Body Without Cyborg Modification
MIT's Pranav Mistry has developed Sparsh, a system that enables users to transfer files from one device to another by simply touching their screens.
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Online 3D Insect Sleuth Tells Friend From Foe
A new online system could make it easier for Australia to identify invasive fire ants, which were accidentally imported into the country two decades ago.
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Software to Predict 'march Madness' Basketball Winner
The goal of the March Madness Predictive Analysis Challenge, now in its second year, is to build software that can select winning basketball teams with greater...
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Crickets Inspire Stealthy Robots to Fire Rings of Air
Monash University's Andy Russell used the African cave cricket, Phaeophilacris spectrum, as inspiration for creating stealth communication between robots.
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Augmented Reality Iphone Helps Police Track Suspects
Picture the scene: armed police officers are warned on their radios that a suspected male terrorist has been tracked to a crowded football stadium.
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Better Than Human? What's Next for Jeopardy! Computer
A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...
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Smart Contact Lenses For Health and Head-up Displays
Lenses that monitor eye health are on the way, and in-eye 3D image displays are being developed too—welcome to the world of augmented vision.
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Make Way for Mathematical Matter
We already have solid, liquid, gas, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. Now it seems we may be on the verge of discovering a whole host of new forms of matter...
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