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This Working Computer Is Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
The University of Michigan's Micro Mote is an autonomous computer programmed and charged via light, which could be used for a variety of medical and industrial...
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Planes Without Pilots
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...
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Brain Compass Implant Gives Blind Rats Psychic Gps
Who needs sight to get around when you've got a digital compass in your head?
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Know Instantly How Much Privacy a Website Visit Costs You
An Italian researcher has developed algorithms that can calculate the privacy costs of websites.
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Can You Vote For the Next President on Your Smartphone? Not Just Yet.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has approved a measure to update the security and accessibility guidelines for voting machines.
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How Google Is Making Sure Cows Won't Foil Its Self-Driving Cars
Most of us haven't had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we're driving. Still, it's the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating.
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What Are the Colors of Alien Life?
Just before it became the first man-made vessel to leave the solar system, in 1990, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth, some four billion miles away.
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Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days.
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Sabina, New Domestic Service Robot
New software enables a domestic service robot to learn under user guidance via remote control, voice commands, or by being shown the tasks.
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Researchers Build Brain-Machine Interface to Control Prosthetic Hand
Researchers have demonstrated a non-invasive technique to enable a subject to directly control a prosthetic hand using only their thoughts.
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Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death
Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city's soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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Roll Up Your Screen and Stow It Away?
A structure based on a synthetic hybrid molecule of peptides and DNA could be used to produce thin, transparent, flexible screens.
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Wearable Technology Can Help With Public Speaking
An intelligent user interface for smart glasses developed by a team from the University of Rochester can help people with public speaking.
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A Robot Prepared For Self-Awareness
Hector is an ambulatory robot developed at Bielefeld University endowed with a rudimentary form of consciousness.
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Study Shows People Act to Protect Privacy When Told How Often Phone Apps Share Personal Information
Smartphone users will limit the information to which their smartphone apps have access, when they learn how frequently their information is shared with these apps...
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Computer Vision and Robotics Used to Survey Cardigan Bay
Aberystwyth University computer scientists assisted marine experts in mapping and recording the sea bed.
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Novel Graph Method Detects Cyberattack Patterns in Complex Computing Networks
Scientists have developed a framework allowing users to categorize cyberattacks as graph patterns.
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