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Google Tech to Help Autonomous Cars Communicate With Pedestrians
Google has been granted a patent on technology that would attempt to help its autonomous vehicles communicate their "intentions" to pedestrians.
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A Digital Agent to Manage Your Travel
A prototype digital travel agent uses machine learning and optimization techniques, among others, to develop personalized travel "trajectories."
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Online Tracking By News Organizations Is Excessive, Say Researchers
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that news organizations permit far more use of third-party tracking than the average website.
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Engineers Create Droid That Could Replace Firefighters, Soldiers, and Bomb Disposal Experts
Researchers say they have developed a humanoid robot that can operate tools and interact with its environment the same way a person would.
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Machine Learning and Big Data Know It Wasn't You Who Just Swiped Your Credit Card
Financial companies are turning to machine learning and cloud computing to deal with a flood of big data from a multitude of transactions.
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Ic Professors and Grad Students Pair Infants With Robots
Ithaca College researchers, as part of their ongoing "Tots on Bots" study, are nearing the end of their first session with five-month-old infants.
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Why Bartenders Have to Ignore Some Signals
Bielefeld University researchers are leading a study into how a robotic bartender can understand human communication and appropriately serve drinks socially.
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Speeding Delivery By 3D-Printing Products
Online mega-retailer Amazon appears to be exploring the use of 3D printing to get products to consumers faster.
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Sandia's Panther Predicts Movement
A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed software that will enable security data analysts to work more efficiently with big data sets.
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Smile, Frown, Grimace, and Grin--Your Facial Expression Is the Next Frontier in Big Data
Affectiva co-founder Rana el Kaliouby sees the use of computers to interpret human facial expressions as the next logical step in computer-user interaction.
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Strategy Based on Human Reflexes May Keep Legged Robots, Prosthetic Legs From Tripping
A new robotic leg prosthesis could help users recover their balance by using techniques based on the way human legs are controlled.
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Seeking Data Wisdom
Data wisdom is needed to make discoveries and assure the significance of the results of data-intensive research, says a statistician and data scientist.
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Email Security Improving, but Far From Perfect
A new report observes that email security has improved significantly in the past two years, although widespread issues remain.
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Why Ball Tracking Works For Tennis and Cricket but Not Soccer or Basketball
Tracking balls in some sports--such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer--is significantly harder for machine-vision algorithms than it is in other sports.
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Google Says It Reviewed 1.2 Million Web Pages For 'right to Be Forgotten'
Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Wednesday said it has evaluated more than 1.2 million Web pages for compliance with Europe's "Right to Be Forgotten" ruling, and removed...
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Computers Can Perceive Image Curves Like Artists
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have developed a breakthrough concept in the field of computer vision using curves and lines to represent image shapes...
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The Sounds of Brushing
A new study suggests using smartphones to capture the sounds of brushing one's teeth, to determine if you are doing it right.
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How to Pick Out a Face in the Crowd
A computer scientist from Sydney's University of Technology and colleagues have addressed the accuracy limitations of existing facial recognition technology. Researcher...
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The Computer That Knows What You're Thinking
We have all done it; put a rictus grin on our faces while inside we are burning with anger.
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