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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Sense of Technology
Researchers are working to add smell, taste, and touch to the digital world, but significant challenges remain.
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Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming
Eugene Izhikevich thinks you shouldn't have to write code in order to teach robots new tricks.
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New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...
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Nasa Invents a Folding Solar Panel Inspired By Origami
Twenty years ago Brian Trease was a high school exchange student in Japan.
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Virginia Tech Researchers Devise Traffic App to Rival Weather Apps
Researchers are developing a cloud-based application that will use real-time information and historical data to predict when and where traffic is likely to occur...
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Gaze-Tracker Lets You Connect to Devices with a Glance
An eye-tracking camera calculates where the wearer is looking, and transmits it to all the nearby Internet-connected devices, such as stereos and TVs, via Wi-Fi...
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.
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The History of the Predator, the Drone that Changed the World
These days, the word drone is used to refer to just about any kind of remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft.
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The Hidden World of Facebook 'like Farms'
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.
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How Two Men nlocked Modern Encryption
In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.
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Making Big Data Think Bigger
Big-data management will create a significant shift in the way decisions are made, as new sources of data are mined for patterns.
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What's the Next Big Tech Trend? This Federal Agency Thinks It Can Predict the Answer
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is using machine intelligence to predict what emerging technologies will become popular in the future...
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Time Dilation Measured at 40 Percent of the Speed of Light—in the Lab
Einstein is most famous for general relativity, which is really a theory of gravity.
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Nasa's Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Red Planet
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now...
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Quantum Internet Could Keep S Safe from Spying Eyes
Quantum networks are quietly spreading across the world.
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Visualizing 4-Dimensional Asteroids
One of the largest treasure troves of astronomical data comes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing scan of the firmament that began 15 years ago...
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Teaching Computers the Nuances of Human Conversation
Natural-language processing has become very good at recognizing human speech, but it still struggles to understand subtle nuances.
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Mapping Big Data
Researchers are applying geographic mapping principals to large sets of unstructured data in hopes of gaining insights into the relationships between them.
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