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The Way Toddlers Waddle Can Teach Robot Footballers How to Play
A team of researchers has found that a team of robot football (soccer) players trained to mimic how infant humans walk can beat other robots trained on geometric...
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Holograms: Are They Still the Preserve of Science Fiction?
The fragile apparition endured only long enough to say: "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" before flickering out.
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Self-Assembling 3D Battery Would Charge in Seconds
Cornell University researchers have developed an energy storage device architecture with the potential for extremely fast charges.
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Google, Microsoft Find Another Spectre, Meltdown Flaw
Intel and Microsoft on Monday reported a new variant of the Spectre and Meltdown security bugs.
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Making Carbon Nanotubes as sable as Common Plastics
Northwestern University's Jiaxing Huang is using a simple solvent to disperse carbon nanotubes at record concentrations without additives or volatile chemical reactions...
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How China Acquires 'the Crown Jewels' of .S. Technology
The U.S. government was well aware of China's aggressive strategy of leveraging private investors to buy up the latest American technology when, early last year...
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What Is GDPR and How Will It Affect You?
You could be forgiven for thinking that Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every...
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A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
In early 2016, two planetary scientists declared that a ghost planet is hiding in the depths of the solar system, well beyond the orbit of Pluto.
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First Wireless Flying Robotic Insect Takes Off
Engineers at the University of Washington have created the first wireless, insect-sized flying robot.
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The Surprising Return of the Repo Man
The computer in the spotter car shouted "Hide!," and repo agent Derek Lewis knew that meant to keep driving like nothing had happened.
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It Takes a Single Autonomous Car to Prevent Phantom Traffic Jams
Honk if you've heard this one before: Autonomous and connected cars will make driving less of a drudge by handling the stop-n-go mundanity of your commute for you...
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NASA Asks Scientists How Its Lander Should Look for Life on Europa
NASA is in various stages of planning two multi-billion dollar missions to Jupiter's intriguing, ice-covered moon of Europa.
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New Device Could Increase Battery Life of Electronic Devices by More Than a Hundred-Fold
Researchers have developed a material that could extend battery life and reduce the heat generation of battery-powered electronic devices.
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Making Radio Chips for Hell
A new wireless radio mixer integrated circuit can operate at temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men's Dreams
Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
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In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'Accelerators' Aim to Bring Startups Home
Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of "accelerators" in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising startups and...
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Feel What This Robot Feels Through Tactile Expressions
Cornell University's Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab is developing a robot designed to explore textual communication.
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Hiding Information in Plain Text
Computer scientists have now invented a way to hide secret messages in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of letters.
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