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Should Self-Driving Cars Have Drivers Ready to Take Over?
The day when you'll be chauffeured to work by your car may not be far off.
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Flaws in Wireless Mice and Keyboards Let Hackers Type on Your Pc
Bastille researchers warn of a new hacking technique in which malefactors armed with antennas can hijack wireless keyboards and mice from seven companies.
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Autonomous Vehicle Technology Will Keep Soldiers Safer on Air, Land, Sea
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute researchers are developing autonomous warfare technology, including an unmanned air vehicle and an unmanned ground vehicle.
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Can Technology Help S Improve pon Reality?
Imagine walking on Mars and being able to examine rock formations from all angles, or collaborating on the same 3D hologram design with someone thousands of miles...
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How to Build an nbeatable Poker-Playing Robot
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information.
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nited Nations Cito: Artificial Intelligence Will Be Humanity's Final Innovation
United Nations chief information technology officer Atefeh Riazi emphasizes artificial-intelligence innovation as the next nexus of human technological advancement...
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Dartmouth Researchers Invent 'magic Wand' to Improve Healthcare, Cybersecurity
A digital "magic wand" developed by Dartmouth College researchers makes it easy for people to connect their devices to Wi-Fi.
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Researchers Are Developing Shape-Shifting Fluid Robots
Bar-Ilan University researchers say they have created fluid robots that could operate better than solid robots in chaotic, hostile environments.
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Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes
A newly developed robot can iron a shirt after analyzing the subtle ridges in a laid-out garment with two sensors made from Xbox Kinects.
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Software Can Identify You By the Way You Walk in Cctv Footage
Computer scientists in the Czech Republic have developed software designed to work with closed-circuit TV footage that can identify people based on the way they...
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Brain Scan For Artificial Intelligence Shows How Software Thinks
Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new technique for taking snapshots of neural networks as they work through a problem.
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Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect Security
It took six years for Apple to persuade China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, to sell the iPhone.
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First Evidence For the Happiness Paradox--That Your Friends Are Happier Than You Are
Mathematical analysis has demonstrated the validity of the claim that most people's friends have more friends than they do.
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Digital Baby Project's Aim: Computers That See Like Humans
A cognitive psychology experiment has revealed differences in how humans and computers see images, says Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shimon Ullman.
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White House Wants to Train K-12 Students to Be Nation's Future Cyber Defense
A $4-billion effort encouraging U.S. public schools to offer computer science courses is part of a longer-term effort to fill the shortage of federal cyber experts...
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Faster Airport Queues With Facial Recognition
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have developed facial-recognition technology that could automate security checks at airports.
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How the .s. Fights Encryption--and Also Helps Develop It
Some U.S. government agencies are financing the development of encryption technologies to protect communications even as others seek to circumvent them.
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Apple's Fbi Battle Is Complicated. Here's What's Really Going On
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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