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Stanford's Flying, Perching Scamp Robot Can Climb Straight p Walls
A robot developed at Stanford University is the first to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing.
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The Data Lake Concept Is Maturing
Meeting the needs of the new era of big data analytics.
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New Gravity Map Gives Best View Yet Inside Mars
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet...
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Battery-Free Wearables of the Future Could Run Off Your Footsteps
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.
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Mobile-Phone Health Apps Deliver Data Bounty
Last summer, physician Yvonne Chan wondered how the wildfires raging through Washington state were affecting people with asthma—for whom smoke and heat can trigger...
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tah's Online Caucus Gives Security Experts Heart Attacks
Security researchers pretty much uniformly agree that letting people vote online is a very bad idea, one that is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities that could...
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Scientists Develop a 100 Times Faster Type of Memory Cell
A new type of memory cell based on superconductors would be hundreds of times faster than the types of memory devices commonly used today, according to scientists...
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Living Factories of the Future
From an evolutionary perspective, yeast has no business producing a pain killer. But by re-engineering the microbe's genome, Christina Smolke at Stanford University...
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Science Papers Reveal New Aspects of Pluto and its Moons
A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA's approaching New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes since...
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Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds Say
Driverless cars should have a fairly easy time getting the green light to operate on U.S. roadways, as long as they look and act like the vehicles people have been...
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This New Discovery Could Put Quantum Computers Within Closer Reach
Researchers at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have found a way to dampen qubits' susceptibility to magnetic disruptions, or...
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Oldest Ancient-Human Dna Details Dawn of Neanderthals
Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world's most wasteful genome-sequencing project.
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In Africa, Watson's Sister Lucy Is Growing p With the Help of Ibm's Research Team
IBM Research Africa's Kenya lab is giving shape to Lucy, a technology platform aimed at finding "commercially viable solutions to the continent's grand challenges...
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Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++ 17
In an interview, C++ programming language creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses its next planned iteration, C++ 17.
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Computer Scientists Produce Realistic Face Models From Video Recordings
Researchers say they have developed a way to quickly and easily produce very detailed face models.
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The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
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DARPA Calls on Diyers For Weaponized Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking ideas on how products assembled from benign technologies might be transformed into security threats...
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Forget the Robots--Here Come the Geminoids!
Last weekend's South by Southwest Interactive Festival was a showcase for many types of robots.
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What AI Can Tell S About the .s. Supreme Court
Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Discovery Analytics Center have proposed using machine learning to model the U.S. Supreme Court...
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