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The Search For Et: How Close Are We?
In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it?
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Lassie Text Home: Pooches Get Technological
Projects are underway to enhance dogs' ability to interact with technology in new ways, in the hope "we'll be able to make them even better at their jobs."
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Cleaning Bot Operators Get Censored View of Your Home
In the near future, it may be possible for household cleaning robots to be remotely controlled via the Internet, with privacy ensured by blurring the video feed...
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Hackathon Develops Tech Tools to Fight Ebola Epidemic
The University of Oxford earlier this month hosted the Ebola Crisis Hackathon.
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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Computers Are Learning to See the World Like We Do
On the website Park or Bird on Flickr, a computer makes an educated guess as to whether a photograph was taken in a national park or shows a bird.
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Quantum Internet Could Cross Seas By Container Ship
Container ships could be used to create a kind of international quantum Internet.
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Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode
Just how bad will the Ebola outbreak in West Africa get?
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Wearable Tech Lets Boss Track Your Work, Rest and Play
Some jobs come with a uniform. For an increasing number of employees, that uniform will soon include a badge that tracks everything they do.
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Automatic Authors: Making Machines That Tell Tales
Many artificial intelligence researchers believe one of the major breakthroughs in AI will be creating systems that are effective story-tellers.
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Hong Kong Protesters se a Mesh Network to Organise
Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.
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Ethical Trap: Robot Paralyzed By Choice of Who to Save
Bristol Robotics Laboratory's Alan Winfield and colleagues recently tested an ethical challenge for a robot.
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Code Generation: Kids Who Program Before They Can Read
Schools in England this month are embarking on one of the most ambitious efforts in the ongoing campaign to teach children to code.
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Fabric Circuits Pave the Way For Wearable Tech
Researchers at Hong Kong's Institute of Textiles and Clothing have developed what they call a fabric circuit board, a textile threaded with electrical wiring.
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Proof Confirmed of 400-Year-Old Fruit-Stacking Problem
A computer-verified proof of a 400-year-old problem could pave the way for a new era of mathematics.
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Traffic Light Hackers Could Cause Jams Across the US
Branden Ghena pulls his car up under a traffic light in a city in Michigan.
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Twitter Bots Grow p and Take On the World
On 18 July, someone in the Russian government edited Wikipedia.
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U.s. Government Chatbot Gets You to Tell All
Want access to the U.S. government's secrets? Talk to the robot.
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Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family
In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world's most advanced consumer robots awaits command...
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