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Bio-Inspired Robotic Device Could Aid Ankle-Foot Rehabilitation
Robotics researchers have developed an active orthotic device that can duplicate the natural motions in a person's ankle.
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The Race to Buy the Human Brains Behind Deep Learning Machines
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.
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How You Might Be Tracked For Ads in a Post-Cookie World
The Web cookie may be dying, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of consumers being tracked online.
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dacity Founder: Moocs Can Help the Economy, Even If They Can't Replace College
Sebastian Thrun was instrumental in building Google's self-driving car and Glass projects, and helped launch the company's Google X wing to spearhead "moonshot"...
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Netflix-Like Algorithm Drives New College-Finding Tool
A computer science doctoral student has developed a recommendation algorithm to help guide high school students in their choice of colleges.
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The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking are playing poker together.
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Transponder Allows Cars to 'See' Pedestrians
Researchers have developed a method to enable driver-assistance systems in vehicles to identify pedestrians and cyclists even if they are obscured by large obstacles...
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Space Droids Battle to Save Earth From Comet
As part of the Zero Robotics tournament, students across Europe write algorithms to control autonomous satellites that hover around the International Space Station...
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At Super Bowl, Detecting Threats Is Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Imagine this scenario: In the course of an hour this week, four different people involved in Super Bowl setup require emergency medical assistance, all for nausea...
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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.
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One Day an Elevator Might Ask—are You Getting On?
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.
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Ford, Stanford, and MIT Research Giving Self-Driving Cars 'intuition'
Ford Motor is working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to give self-driving cars intuition.
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Neural Nets: Now Available in the Cloud
A new system called N2Sky sets up neural networks in the cloud so their services can be shared like other computing resources.
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Fbi Warns Retailers to Expect More Credit Card Breaches
The FBI has warned U.S. retailers to prepare for more cyber attacks after discovering about 20 hacking cases in the past year that involved the same kind of malicious...
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kraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones
The Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cellphones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early...
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Silver Nanowire Sensors Hold Promise For Prosthetics, Robotics
Silver nanowires have been used to develop wearable, multifunctional sensors that can measure strain, pressure, human touch, and electrocardiograms.
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Seeing Things: A New Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-up Data
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...
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Byu's Smart Object Recognition Algorithm Doesn't Need Humans
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences without human calibration.
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