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Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
A new algorithm can rank the questions and answers on question and answer websites, while weeding out off-topic and irrelevant entries.
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Can You Read My Mind? Uc Researchers Engineer the Framework For Helpful Robots With Human Intuition
Robots are expected to play an increasingly large role in daily life over the next 50 years.
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Students pdate Classic Animation Technique
Much of the repetitive manual work involved in the classic squash and stretch animation technique has been automated in a new software program.
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...
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3-D Images, With Only One Photon Per Pixel
Lidar rangefinders, which are common tools in surveying and in autonomous-vehicle control, among other applications, gauge depth by emitting short bursts of laser...
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China Bars Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
China's government banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin on Thursday, in what analysts said was a restrained first step towards regulating the digital...
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Complex Computations
The science and industry sectors are showing considerable interest in the Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioner.
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Shazam! How the Music Industry Hears What You (will) Love
At some point in 2014, your friends are totally going to be into this Dutch DJ named Martin Garrix.
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Japanese Robots Earn Their Keep
Japanese researchers have developed a robot designed to provide assistance and companionship to human astronauts who spend months working in space.
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When Bitcoins Go Bad: 4 Stories of Fraud, Hacking, and Digital Currencies
With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency.
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'Soft' Biometrics Is the New Way to Monitor People
Cameras are strewn around our environment, catching glimpses of our faces everywhere we go, yet even the best facial recognition technology still has a hard time...
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Scientist-Developed Malware Covertly Jumps Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound
Computer scientists have developed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signals to communicate, a capability that allows the malware to covertly transmit...
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Wave Fingers, Make Faces: The Future of Computing at Intel
Intel's perceptual computing technology incorporates gestures, facial recognition, and voice recognition to make devices more "natural, intuitive, and immersive...
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Patients Drive New Wheelchair With Their Tongues
The new Tongue Drive System is a wearable system that enables paralyzed people to control wheelchairs with flicks of their pierced tongues.
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Robotutor Marks the Homework of a Class of Thousands
Codewebs, an artificially intelligent tutor for online students that can analyze and assess submitted code, can give students fast, tailored feedback and guidance...
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Nasa's Dawn Fills Out Its Ceres Dance Card
It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance...
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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Inside a Twitter Robot Factory
One day last month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan.
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