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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Random Numbers: Hard Times Ahead For Hackers
Researchers at the University of Geneva have developed a new random-number generator based on the principles of quantum physics.
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Robot Design For Dummies
A interactive design tool enables novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using three-dimensionally-printed components and commercially...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Teport: All the Slides, Plus Analysis
The most anticipated slide deck of the year is here.
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How a Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs to a Middle-School Classroom
On a Saturday afternoon, 10 students gather at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, to learn how to edit genes.
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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Soft Robotic Structures Fold Themselves p in Hot Water
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new approach for making compliant, controllable robotic structures.
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cf Research Could Bring 'drastically' Higher Resolution to Your Phone and Tv
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a color-changing surface that is tunable via electric voltage.
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Mind-Controlled Device Helps Stroke Patients Retrain Brains to Move Paralyzed Hands
Researchers have developed a hand-worn device connected to a brain-computer interface to help stroke patients retrain their brains to recover hand movements.
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w Engineers Borrow From Electronics to Build Largest Circuits to Date in Living Eukaryotic Cells
University of Washington researchers have demonstrated a new method for digital information processing in living cells.
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Shedding Light on How Humans Walk…with Robots
Researchers have discovered that humans whose lower limbs are fastened to a typical clinical robot only modify their gait if the forces the robot applies threaten...
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Faster, More Nimble Drones on the Horizon
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...
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A Network of Crystals For Long-Distance Quantum Communication
Researchers have demonstrated a protocol for long-distance quantum communication using a network of crystals.
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Google Deepmind's Alphago Is Retiring After Beating the World's Best Human Players
Google's DeepMind unit has announced the retirement of its AlphaGo software after it won a three-game match against Chinese Go champion Ke Jie.
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...
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Heads p: Augmented Reality Prepares For the Battlefield
At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research...
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Russian Hackers Are sing 'tainted' Leaks to Sow Disinformation
Over the past year, the Kremlin's strategy of weaponizing leaks to meddle with democracies around the world has become increasingly clear, first in the US and more...
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What Self-Driving Cars See
Giant tech companies are fighting over the technology in court. Start-ups around the world are racing to develop new versions of it. And engineers say it is essential...
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