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Microsoft Xbox 3D-Projected Games Outlined in Patent
Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a U.S. patent belonging...
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With Kinect-Like Gestures, Softkinetic Leads the Way to Intel's Perceptual Computing
The age of perceptual computing starts with devices that can be controlled with the wave of your hand or the sound of your voice rather than just a mouse, keyboard...
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Difference Engine: The Pc All Over Again?
What could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages, and basements. Tinkerers...
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New Breed of Robotics Aims to Help People Walk Again
When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around his left leg, lifting it and moving it forward.
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Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete
NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.
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New York Police Dept. Issues First Rules For se of Social Media During Investigations
The NYPD has for the first time laid out rules for using social media during investigations—but critics say the guidelines raise questions about privacy issues.
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How Apple Really Invented the Iphone
Like many of Apple's inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem.
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The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals
Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia...
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Super-Fast Broadband: Build It and They will Come–Maybe
When the Internet pipelines in cities like Chattanooga and Kansas City are accelerated to super-fast broadband, the leading-edge technology is expected to generate...
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Mind Control Will Shape Future of Gaming and Cell Phones
In an interview, University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Jason T. Cassibry shares his thoughts about the new technological advances on the horizon.
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Fbi Launches $1 Billion Face Recognition Project
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using facial-recognition technology to identify criminals and the system will be rolled out nationwide by 2014.
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Facebook's China Problem
Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began to make the rounds on China's version of Twitter, a microblog—or...
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Who’s the Most Influential in a Social Graph?
Georgia Tech researchers say they have developed an algorithm that quickly determines betweenness centrality for streaming graphs.
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Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans
University of Rochester researchers have developed Chorus, an approach to virtual personal assistants that creates a smart artificial chat partner from small contributions...
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Mapping Neurological Disease
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with...
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New App Will Help Make Sign Language Communication More Accessible
Hearing and deaf sign language users should be able to communicate more effectively using an app designed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
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'Junk DNA' Debunked
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago, scientists said Wednesday...
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Bae's Striker Helmet Gives Fighter Pilots 'x-Ray Vision'
When a pilot in a Eurofighter Typhoon jet glances down, he doesn't see a steel-grey floor. Instead he sees clouds, and maybe sheep and cows in green fields below...
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Visible Light Communication Could Simplify Car Electronics
Warwick University researchers are studying replacing the wiring inside cars with devices that communicate via light signals. The researchers have demonstrated...
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