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Tiny Motions Bring Digital Doubles to Life
New technology is helping animators convert moving dots into detailed body shapes that move like real humans.
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Researchers Develop Clothes That Can Monitor and Transmit Biomedical Info on Wearers
Smart textiles developed at Laval University in Canada could benefit people suffering from chronic diseases and the elderly, as well as first responders.
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Poseidon: Information Technology For People With Down’s Syndrome
The POSEIDON project will use information technology to help people with Down's syndrome achieve a greater level of independence in their lives.
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Football Robot Promises to Get Rid of the Boring Bits
BBC NewsPolytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed software that can identify the important parts of a soccer match and edit them together to...
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Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing
Some high-tech prosthetic limbs can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. However, there's no way for the wearer to tell if an...
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That’s Traffic; p Next, Weather
Smartphone apps emerge to support better weather forecasting.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.
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Titan's Giant Dunes Track Ancient Climate
Long sand dunes that ripple across Saturn's moon Titan may have been there for thousands of years, results from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest.
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Engineer Applies Robot Control Theory to Improve Prosthetic Legs
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to help amputees walk.
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U. Michigan Fronts Effort to Push Https Net Security
A University of Michigan research team is leading a project to provide free, automated, open, and ubiquitous website HTTPS Transport Layer Security encryption.
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'nanobuds' Could Turn Almost Any Surface Into a Touch Sensor
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into...
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Google Says Bye Bye, Captchas, Well, Mostly
Google recently announced it has starting phasing out its CAPTCHAs in favor of using its reCAPTCHA service.
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U.s. Intelligence Wants High-Tech Access to the Most Prodigious Sensor of All: Humans
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is doing research for its Future Applications of Sense Technology for Fidelitous Wearable Devices program...
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On Pluto’s Doorstep, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Encounter
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles—the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target—NASA's New Horizons spacecraft...
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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Dawn Snaps Its Best-Yet Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres
The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from...
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Scientists Review Worldwide Rise of 'network of Networks'
A new paper from scientists based in China, the U.S., and Israel examines how the world has come to be dominated by interconnected networks.
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Lassie Text Home: Pooches Get Technological
Projects are underway to enhance dogs' ability to interact with technology in new ways, in the hope "we'll be able to make them even better at their jobs."
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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