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Taskmaster Robots Watch While You Work in Case You Miss a Step
Researchers have developed a robot that can watch people work, learn the steps that make up the task, and remind people when they forget a step.
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.s. Meets Tech Leaders, Forms Task Force to Fight Online Militants
The Obama administration on Friday sent its top national security officials to meet tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley and announced a new task force to counter...
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Rebooted Kepler Spacecraft Hauls in the Planets
In the second phase of its life as a planet hunter, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is raking in exoplanet discoveries that are surprisingly different from those found...
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The 'internet of Touch' Will Require a Network Revolution
Researchers are proposing changes in the way haptic information is transmitted and received.
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What We've Learned About Pluto So Far
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft concluded its tightly choreographed flyby of Pluto, back in July, with a pirouette, pointing its antenna toward Earth.
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What Does the Internet Actually Look Like?
It’s difficult to define "the cloud." Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that's precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photoThe...
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In 2016, Terror Suspects and 7-Eleven Thieves May Bring Surveillance to Supreme Court
It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security...
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Iu Southeast Professors Develop Apps That Help Users Experience Physics Concepts
Two Indiana University Southeast professors have designed free "Mobile Science" applications to make students more experientially familiar with physics concepts...
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Science Can Tell If North Korea's Test Was Really an H-Bomb
It was the whomp felt 'round the world.
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Enzyme Tweak Boosts Precision of Crispr Genome Edits
A powerful technique for editing genomes is now more precise.
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Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-Ray Vision
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy,...
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Dutch Government: Encryption Good, Backdoors Bad
The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that "it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development...
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How 'do Not Track' Ended Up Going Nowhere
Back in 2010, the Federal Trade Commission pledged to give Internet users the power to determine if or when websites were allowed to track their behavior.
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The Physics of Life
First, Zvonimir Dogic and his students took microtubules—threadlike proteins that make up part of the cell's internal 'cytoskeleton'—and mixed them with kinesins...
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The Big Data of Bad Driving, and How Insurers Plan to Track Your Every Turn
For years, insurance companies have used estimates of your annual mileage to determine your car insurance rates.
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Full-Circle Panorama Beside 'namib Dune' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep...
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Face Time: Onr-Sponsored Tech Reads Facial Expressions For Autism Symptoms
A new app can screen for autism by reading children's facial expressions for emotional cues.
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Carnegie Mellon Develops New Method For Analyzing Synaptic Density
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say they are using machine learning to survey learning-related changes in synapse properties.
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