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Officials Push For Standard Collision Tech in Cars
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) strongly recommends that collision avoidance systems become standard on all new vehicles.
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Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet
When you hear the word "Internet," what do you picture in your mind?
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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...
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Nasa Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars.
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Hacker Turns Toy Into Tool That Can Open Garage Doors in Seconds
Security researcher Samy Kamkar has developed an attack for fixed-code garage door openers.
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Giving Physical Shape to Invisible Signals
When a newly renovated apartment in San Francisco went on the market earlier this year for roughly $8.5 million, its asking price included a somewhat unexpected...
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Falls of the Robots: Disaster Droids Struggle to Stay pright
It's a scenario straight out of a Hollywood movie.
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How the Country's Top Privacy Cop Is Trying to Protect Consumers in the Digital Age
As the digital economy has exploded, tech companies are collecting untold amounts of data on everyday Americans.
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Korean robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize
A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research...
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Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?
Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world's most complicated mechanical timepieces.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Developer Tracks Real-Time Locations of Facebook Messenger sers
Marauders Map is a browser extension that allows users to discover the identity of Facebook Messenger users, their location, and previous movements.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation.
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Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out
Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the living room.
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Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred From A.i. Competition
A group of researchers at the Chinese web services company Baidu have been barred from participating in an international competition for artificial intelligence...
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Rumor-Detector Software Ids Disputed Claims on Twitter
University of Michigan professor Qiaozhu Mei and colleagues recently unveiled software that can quickly detect rumors on Twitter.
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Disaster Droids Face Off in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.
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Qosmos: Cognitive Radio Technology Optimises se of Scarce Spectrum
The European QoSMOS project addresses the problems of scarcity and cost commonly associated with the need for more radio spectrum.
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