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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical Interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects
Queen's University researchers have developed BitDrones, an interactive swarm of flying three-dimensional pixels.
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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?
Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering are developing robots that could help rescue people from fires.
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System Recognizes Objects Touched By User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed technology to enable smartwatches to recognize the kinds of objects users .
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Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart
The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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The Crispr Quandary
One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...
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Wpi Research Team Develops Virtual Human
Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers have created a comprehensive virtual model of a human body for use in a wide range of medical experiments.
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Robot Revolution: Rise of 'thinking' Machines Could Exacerbate Inequality
More than one third of U.K. employees and nearly half of U.S. workers could lose their jobs to "thinking" machines over the next 20 years, according to a study.
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Researchers Take Two Big Steps Toward Quantum Computing
Two related teams of Austrian researchers have made a pair of discoveries related to quantum entanglement they describe in two new papers.
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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Nomadic Computing Speeds p Big Data Analytics
The latest research by Inderjit Dhillon is a non-locking, stochastic multi-machine algorithm for asynchronous and decentralized matrix completion.
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Google Just Open Sourced Tensorflow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine
Tech pundit Tim O'Reilly had just tried the new Google Photos app, and he was amazed by the depth of its artificial intelligence.
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Toyota on Friday announced a five-year, $1-billion investment to establish an artificial intelligence research laboratory in Silicon Valley.
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Where Computing Hits the Wall: 3 Things Holding Us Back
Jason Matheny, director of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, warns several challenges to data analytics still need to be addressed.
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Google Tries to Make Machine Learning a Little More Human
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.
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The Solution to Faster Computing? Sing to Your Data
Sound could be the solution to faster computing, according to researchers from the universities of Sheffield and Leeds.
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Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things
Moving the Internet of Things forward will require, among other things, standards, the ability to configure massive numbers of devices, and a healthy dose of paranoia...
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I'm Going to Make Facebook's AI Predict What Happens in Videos
What are the big challenges ahead for you?
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Nasa Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian...
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