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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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These Nifty Drones Can Lock Together in Mid-Air to Form a Bigger, Stronger Robot
Researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo have developed drones that can assemble and dissemble in mid-air.
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How Tesla is Using a Supercomputer to Train its Self-Driving Tech
Tesla's approach to autonomy is controversial: It relies on just cameras to see and understand the roads.
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Audi's In-Car Information System Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights
Audi's Traffic Light Information system can alert drivers to imminent red lights and other traffic signals.
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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Have We Found Alien Life?
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
Like Schrödinger's cat, teleported light is both dead and alive.
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