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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care For the Aging
In the opening scene of the movie "Robot & Frank," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going...
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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
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Web Browsers Are Reinvented
Mobile phones, wearable devices, and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend...
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Chatting in Code on Walkie-Talkies in Pakistan's Restive Tribal Areas
Sharif loves using his mukhabera. "I use it daily, mostly at night time, because signals are clear at that time," he says. "I am in touch with most of my friends...
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New Imaging System 'reads' Ancient Scrolls
A combination of x-rays and computer modeling offers historians a way to read ancient parchments so fragile they cannot be unrolled.
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Badminton-Playing Robot Tests Software Designs of the Future
A badminton-playing robot demonstrates methodology and tools under development for optimizing energy flows/losses throughout a machine.
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Group Helps to Improve Use of Colossal Digital Library 'Europeana'
The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country's IXA Group has enhanced the use of the vast Europeana digital library.
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Scientists Take Data Approach to Beat Disease
Researchers are using computer hardware and programming with genetic sequencing tools to help identify the sources of ailments at the genetic level.
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Why Google and the Pentagon Want 'quantum Computers'
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...
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Paul Otellini's Intel: Can the Company That Built the Future Survive It?
Forty-five years after Intel was founded by Silicon Valley legends Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, it is the world's leading semiconductor company.
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Should Patents Be Awarded to Software?
The goal of the U.S. patent system is clear: to provide individuals or companies with an incentive to innovate by offering them 20 years of exclusive rights to...
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Hospital Visits Take on New Meaning With Therapeutic Robots
The Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals project gives European researchers the opportunity to examine how humans and robots interact.
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Good, Better, Best Practices in Terminology
The Legal Language Interoperability Services project is focused on improving terminological databases, with an emphasis on legal and administrative terminology. ...
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Age and Gender? Dutch Develop Analyzer for Twitter
A new online program can determine the age and gender of Twitter users, based on the content they post.
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Improving Communication During Disasters
The BRIDGE project aims to improve emergency response collaboration during disasters, and is examining how technology can help to enhance response strategies.
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Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work By 2045
Robots began replacing human brawn long ago—now they're poised to replace human brains.
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Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...
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Google Introduces New Search Tools to Try to Read Our Minds
The company revealed some new search tools on Wednesday at I/O, its annual developers conference.
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