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It's Erwin the Friendly Robot
A doctoral student will use a friendly robot to study how the human-robot relationship would be affected if robots have human-like thought biases.
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Baxter and the Second Machine Age
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...
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Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data
The massive Target data breach is a symbol of the need for tighter data security in big retail chains, but it's also still an evolving story in its own right.
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Experiment Adds Sense of Touch to Artificial Hand
Swiss and Italian researchers have developed a robotic hand that enables amputees to feel differences between objects.
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Researcher Takes a Muscular Approach to Robotics
A team at Harvard University has developed a robotic device to restore movement for sufferers of neuromuscular disorders that affect the foot and ankle.
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Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen
The Wikipedia Foundation formed a team of software developers to focus on developing the site for use with mobile devices.
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Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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DARPA Thinks the Future of Surveillance Looks Like Siri
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Dan Kaufman says an innovation gap exists as the private sector advances in areas in which the government was once...
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
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This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly networked systems are protected...
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Google's Ray Kurzweil Envisions New Era of Search
In an interview, Google engineering chief Ray Kurzweil discussed a new type of search engine that he is developing, noting that search engines will have increasingly...
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A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape.
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
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Government Wants You to Broadcast Your Driving Data—Eventually
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...
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'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers With Fake Secrets
Researchers have developed an approach to cryptography that makes it difficult for hackers to determine when they have correctly deciphered a password.
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