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Will We Ever Learn to Live with Artificial Humans?
How Japan's AKB48 has created a new level of artificial human—and what it tells us about the infamous Uncanny Valley.
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Disabled Patients Mind-Meld With Robots
They're not quite psychic yet, but machines are getting better at reading your mind. Researchers have invented a new, noninvasive method for recording patterns...
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Matching Images of Brain Activity with Complex Thought
Can you get a text output of your thoughts? Princeton scientists show that it is possible to generate text about the mental content reflected in brain images.
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Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
Through a combination of careful theoretical modeling and precise micro-manufacturing, a team of engineers and scientists has developed a new type of ultra-thin...
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Geo-Immersion Makes Maps Come Alive
When it comes to mapping the real world on computers, University of Southern California computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi takes his work to a whole new dimension...
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Cooperative Robots That Learn = Less Work For Human Handlers
Learning a language can be difficult for some, but for babies it seems quite easy. With support from the National Science Foundation, linguist Jeffrey Heinz and...
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Mind-Controlled
Video games can be mesmerizing, even for a rhesus monkey. Which may explain, in part, why six-year-old Jasper has been sitting transfixed at a computer screen...
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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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Mathematical Model Simulating Rat Whiskers Provides Insight Into Sense of Touch
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a mathematical model that will allow them to simulate how rats use their whiskers to sense objects around...
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Technique for Letting Brain Talk to Computers Now Tunes in Speech
The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying...
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Diamond Could Store Quantum Information
Could be that diamonds are a geek’s best friend. Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information...
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Computer Chips Wired with Nerve Cells
Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the...
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Electronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips
Rice University graduate student Jun Yao's research with silicon-oxide circuits could be a game-changer in nanoelectronics.
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Crowdsourcing Peer Review
It is the greatest question in computer science. A negative answer would likely give a fundamentally deeper understanding of the nature of computation. And a...
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Nsf Announces Future Internet Architecture Awards
Four basic research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation will explore different aspects of network architecture to foster new ideas and innovations...
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Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature
Physicists at the University of Nebraska Lincoln have changed the orientation of a large number of electron spins collectively at room temperature by pure electrical...
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Machine Science
Manually tracking all the published science relevant to a scientist's research is an impossible task, but it is predicted that computers capable of generating many...
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Molecular Robots On the Rise
Researchers have created and programmed robots the size of single molecule that can move independently across a nanoscale track. This development marks an important...
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Quantum Cryptography Hits the Fast Lane
Toshiba researchers have developed a quantum cryptography system they say is fast enough to encrypt a video transmission.
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