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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...
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Dronebuster Will Let You Point and Shoot Command Hacks at Pesky Drones
Anti-drone technology has been high on the shopping list of public safety and military organizations at least since a drunken federal employee crashed a drone onto...
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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Light-Controlled Genes and Neurons Poised For Clinical Trials
Every time something poked its foot, the mouse jumped in pain.
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Scan Your Doodles to Find the Perfect Matching Photo Online
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed software that can scan hand-drawn sketches and search for a photograph that looks like them. ...
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Mobile Apps and Games Are Also Energy Thieves
Linkoping University's Ekhiotz Jon Vergara has determined the energy consumption of apps on smartphones depends the amount of data transmitted and how it is sent...
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Largest Study of Online Tracking Proves Google Really Is Watching S All
Researchers at Princeton University say they have conducted the largest study yet on the technology that tracks people's movements around the Web.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.
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Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First
Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you.
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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Robot's In-Hand Eye Maps Surroundings, Determines Hand's Location
Researchers have developed a new technology that includes a camera attached to a robot's hand that can rapidly create a three-dimensional model of its environment...
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Abstinence May Not Be the Best Policy For Avoiding Online Risk
A recent study found permitting teenagers to develop their own strategies for coping with risky online situations may be a better strategy than banning Internet...
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Fighting the Zika Virus With the Power of Supercomputing
Rutgers University researchers are taking a lead role in an IBM-sponsored World Community Grid project to identify potential drug candidates to cure the Zika virus...
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Europa's Ocean May Have An Earthlike Chemical Balance
A new NASA study modeling conditions in the ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there, even...
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You Can Hear the Future Calling
Hearables are not your father’s earphones, limited to taking calls and listening to music.
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Technique Makes Holograms Highly Efficient, Secure
Harvard University researchers have programmed polarization into compact holograms.
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What the New Science of Touch Says About Ourselves
On a bitter, soul-shivering, damp, biting gray February day in Cleveland—that is to say, on a February day in Cleveland—a handless man is handling a nonexistent...
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