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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
Using three-dimensional laser-scanning techniques, two architectural designers are mapping London with an autonomous car to demonstrate its artistic potential.
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Researchers Find Way to Create Wide Variety of New Holograms
North Carolina State University researchers have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern...
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
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Baidu, the 'chinese Google,' Is Teaching AI to Spot Malware
Andrew Ng picks up his iPhone and opens an app called FaceYou.
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pgrade Helps Nasa Study Mineral Veins on Mars
Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part...
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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical Interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects
Queen's University researchers have developed BitDrones, an interactive swarm of flying three-dimensional pixels.
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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?
Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering are developing robots that could help rescue people from fires.
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Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart
The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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The Crispr Quandary
One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...
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Researchers Take Two Big Steps Toward Quantum Computing
Two related teams of Austrian researchers have made a pair of discoveries related to quantum entanglement they describe in two new papers.
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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Get Smart
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan have developed a system they say could lead to the next generation of home thermostats. ...
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Google Just Open Sourced Tensorflow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine
Tech pundit Tim O'Reilly had just tried the new Google Photos app, and he was amazed by the depth of its artificial intelligence.
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Nsa Says How Often, Not When, It Discloses Software Flaws
The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities in computer software, thereby leaving U.S. companies...
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Icy Volcanoes May Dot Pluto's Surface
Two icy volcanoes may lurk near Pluto's south pole, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest.
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Researchers Threatened a Robot With a Knife to See If Humans Cared
A recently published study found that human beings will readily empathize with human-like robots.
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The Solution to Faster Computing? Sing to Your Data
Sound could be the solution to faster computing, according to researchers from the universities of Sheffield and Leeds.
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Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate
The Going Dark encryption debate surfaced again on Wednesday at a small security conference here, and as in previous iterations before larger technical audiences...
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