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Smart Thermostat Puts Energy Money Saving at Household Fingertips
University of Southampton researchers have developed a prototype "smart" thermostat that lets users control their heating on a cost basis, rather than by temperature...
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Why We Won't Trust Robot Cars Until They Drive Just Like US
Eight separate research projects into autonomous vehicles will receive financial support from the U.K. government.
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Better Brain Imaging Could Show Computers a Smarter Way to Learn
Machine learning is an extremely clever approach to computer programming.
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Virtual City Walkthroughs Help to Find Pedestrian Death Traps
Columbia University researchers are using home-built software to examine Google Street View images to identify locations in New York City where pedestrians are...
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World's First Single-Atom Optical Switch Fabricated
Researchers from ETH Zurich Switzerland have fabricated the world's first single-atom optical switch.
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Software Adapts Speech to Ambient Noise Level
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology researchers have developed software that significantly improves the intelligibility of speech.
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Robotic Fingers With a Gentle Touch
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a soft robotic gripper that can bend and pick up delicate objects using electroadhesion...
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a virtually hack-proof radio-frequency identification chip.
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
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Meet the Soft, Cuddly Robots of the Future
In 2007, Cecilia Laschi asked her father to catch a live octopus for her seaside lab in Livorno, Italy.
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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.
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This Robot Changes How It Looks at You to Match Your Personality
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways.
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Making Our Digital World Safer From Cyberattacks
Researchers are working to help ensure cybersecurity develops in conjunction with changes in technology and with emerging threats.
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Saturn's Rings: Less Than Meets the Eye?
It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance.
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How Do Americans Weigh Privacy Versus National Security?
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...
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If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
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Cynthia Breazeal's Robotic Quest
Cynthia Breazeal has committed herself to the development of socially intelligent robots.
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How to Make Your Own Nsa Bulk Surveillance System
A network surveillance and security issues expert built a miniature bulk surveillance system like the one used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful Artificial-Intelligence Tasks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers this week introduced a new chip that implements neural networks.
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