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Researchers 3D-Print Electronics, Cells Directly on Skin
University of Minnesota researchers have printed electronics on a real hand for the first time.
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AI to Find Optimal Electric Car Recharge Point Locations
A new artificial intelligence tool can determine the best locations for electric car charging stations.
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The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...
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.S. Army Makes a Virtual North Korea for Training
The U.S. Army is creating a virtual duplicate of our planet in which to drill troops.
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Move Over, Tupac! Life-Size Holograms Set to Revolutionize Videoconferencing
Researchers have developed the first truly holographic videoconferencing system, allowing users in different locations to appear before one another life-size and...
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CM Researchers Create Self-Folding Origami, Try for Pasta That Shapes as it Cooks
Researchers have created origami that folds itself.
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Change Blindness: Mobile Phone Users Miss Vital Information
A new study has found that the way mobile phone users interact with their devices could result in a phenomenon known as "change blindness."
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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Cracking the Crypto War
On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino,...
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Who Controls Your Data?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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MoS2 Transistor Can Be sed in Bendable OLED Displays
Researchers at Korea's Yonsei and Chung-Ang universities have developed a molybdenum disulfide transistor that can be used in bendable OLED displays.
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Study Shows First Computer-Driven Cars Will Have Noticeable Impact on Rush Hour
Adding even a few automated vehicles to traffic will positively influence all traffic flow, resulting in faster, smoother commutes for all drivers, according to...
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Heat-Seeking Cameras Could Help Keep Self-Driving Cars Safe
After Uber's fatal self-driving crash last month in Tempe, Arizona, most observers had two basic question: Why did the car not see Elaine Herzberg crossing the...
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Enigma Machine Collection Recalls Computer Science Victory
Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.
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How Social Networking Sites May Discriminate Against Women
Researchers have shown how two common recommendation algorithms intensify a network effect known as homophily, in which similar or like-minded people cluster together...
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sing AI to Detect Heart Disease
Researchers have developed a better way to predict and monitor cardiovascular disease.
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Researchers Design ‘Soft’ Robots that Can Move on Their Own
A team of researchers has developed a new class of soft robot that can adapt to the environment.
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