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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream p Buildings
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...
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Is No Secret Safe? Lipreading Robot Proves More Accurate Than a Human in Deciphering Speech
Researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. have developed LipNet, a new program they say is more accurate at reading lips than human experts.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...
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What Trump Means For Tech
Barack Obama's policies on technology were considered pro-innovation, with a view to using technology expertise to improve government systems and services.
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Nasa Small Satellites Will Take a Fresh Look at Earth
Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying...
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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...
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There's Money in Your Wearable Fitness Tracker
The health information collected by wearable fitness trackers may one day carry monetary value, according to a recent study.
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Machines May Never Master the Distinctly Human Elements of Language
Artificial intelligence might never be able to completely understand human language.
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Slac & Berkeley Researchers Prepare For Exascale
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will work to develop applications for exascale supercomputers that can the handle massive datasets produced by x-ray lasers...
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Future Internet Voting Faces Security Hurdles, CMU Students Find
A team of Carnegie Mellon University students says strong encryption will be a necessity for any future online or Internet-based U.S. voting system.
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Big Data Shows People's Collective Behavior Follows Strong Periodic Patterns
Big data-based analysis of datasets of modern and historical news, social media, and Wikipedia page views can reveal periodic patterns in collective population...
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The Real-Time Technicolour Living Brain
Rosa Cossart thinks she knows what a memory looks like.
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Why You Don't Have Much Neanderthal Dna in Your Genome
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged from a common ancestor about half a million years ago.
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Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News
Stanford University professor Tom Mullaney believes computers make Chinese far more advantageous than typing English via a QWERTY keyboard.
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Brown Researchers Developing New Interactive Sleep App
Brown University researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sleep analytics to generate personalized sleep recommendations.
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A Slow Ride Toward the Future of Public Transportation
A self-driving electric bus relying on laser sensors, global-positioning systems, and software is undergoing testing in Helsinki, Finland.
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The Ocean's Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet
A wireless communications network could soon enable autonomous underwater instruments to collect information, communicate, and transfer data at Internet speeds,
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Donald Trump's US Election Win Stuns Scientists
Republican businessman and reality-television star Donald Trump will be the United States' next president.
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