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Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.
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Think Fast, Robot
One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under...
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Virtual Soccer Now a World Cup Fan's Best Prediction Tool
Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2014 World Cup, signaling the start of a global guessing game about which two teams will appear in the finals of the 64-match...
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Teenager Unleashes Computer Power For Cancer Diagnosis
Duke University undergraduate Brittany Wenger recently spoke about her research into using artificial intelligence to teach computers to diagnose cancer.
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Innovative Diabetes App For Smartphones
A new smartphone-based system makes it easier for diabetics to plan their meals and control their blood glucose.
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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Tetris at 30: An Interview with the Historic Puzzle Game's Creator
Thirty years ago today, a little game about dropping geometrically strange thingamajigs — originally clusters of punctuation marks—into neat, lookalike rows kicked...
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Baggage Claim: Airlines Are Winning the War on Lost Luggage
The number of bags delayed, damaged or lost by airlines has fallen by more than half since the industry hit a low point for lost luggage six years ago.
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Intelligent Machines for Tomorrow’s Factory
The European Union's SkillPro research project is developing a plug-and-produce process to speed mass manufacturing of industrial goods.
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Social Media Garden Is First Step in Creating 'emotional' Buildings
Computer scientists and architects are exploring whether architecture is able to reflect and map human emotions.
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App Paired With Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time
ParentGuardian is a smartphone-based system designed to detect stress in parents and help decrease that stress during interactions with their children.
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A Fast Look at Swift, Apple's New Programming Language
If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.
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How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...
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Theoretical Physics: Complexity on the Horizon
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".
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New Nanotech May Provide Power Storage in Cables, Clothes
A new method to transmit and store electricity in a single lightweight copper wire could lead to smaller electronic devices because it could make batteries obsolete...
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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift
Step into the silver screen with movies shot using the Panopticam.
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Wearable Submarine to Hunt for 2000-Year-Old Computer
The world's most advanced robotic diving suit is getting ready to help search for one of the world's oldest computers.
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