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Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Smartwatch With All The Moves
Cito is a prototype smartwatch face that moves in five directions.
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Red Light, Green Light Invention Prevents Work Interruptions
FlowLight is a desk light that automatically switches from green to red when a user should not be disturbed by co-workers.
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Could a Doodle Replace Your Password?
Researchers have developed an identity input method which could replace smartphone passwords with patterns drawn by the user on the device's touchscreen.
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Planetariums, Not Just For Kids
Most researchers think of planetariums, if they think of them at all, as a place to take schoolchildren for whizzy trips through the stars, with nothing to offer...
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Artificial Intelligence Prevails at Predicting Supreme Court Decisions
A study led by the Illinois Institute of Technology suggests artificial intelligence can outperform legal scholars in the prediction of U.S. Supreme Court rulings...
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The Shock Tactics Set to Shake p Immunology
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...
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Iarpa, Nist Hosting Face Recognition Challenge to Improve Accuracy
The Face Recognition Prize Challenge is designed to improve core face-recognition accuracy.
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Nmsu Research Shows Technology May Help Speed Political Polarization
Customizable technology wields a sizable influence on accelerating political polarization in the U.S.
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Making Smartphones More Aware
The drive to make electronic devices more situationally, contextually aware of their environments.
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New Movie Shows Cassini's First Dive Over Saturn
A new movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as the spacecraft swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between...
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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In Europe's Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News
Scientists are attempting to counter a rash of fake news spreading online as European elections loom.
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Berkeley Students Create Wheelchair Add-On to Help Blind Users Navigate
A new low-cost, modular, customizable add-on system for wheelchairs employs sensors and software to make navigation easier for visually-impaired users.
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You've Had a Good Night's Sleep
A new tool uses machine learning to model personal sleep patterns based on sounds made during sleep.
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The AI Revolution Is Making Game Characters Move More Realistically
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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