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Artificial Arms Get Closer to the Real Thing
Powered prosthetic hands and arms have advanced little in the last 50 years.
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Drop That Beaker
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities are promoting massive online laboratories as a way to combat the rising level of errors and fraud in life...
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Large Hadron Collider: The Big Reboot
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...
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Your Phone Screen Just Won the Nobel Prize in Physics
You've probably got the fruits of this year’s Nobel laureates' handiwork in your pocket. In fact, if you're reading this on your phone or a relatively recent flat...
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Real Holodeck Turns Your Living Room Into a Game
Good news, Star Trek fans: Microsoft has created a prototype Holodeck that transforms an entire room into a virtual gaming environment.
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Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
"This is already so real, I don’t know if I even want to do this anymore," I say out loud.
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Town Built For Driverless Cars
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.
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Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest to Mend
Networks shaped like delicate snowflakes are the ones that are easiest to fix when disaster strikes.
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Intel Meets its 'makers,' with Chips For Diy Set and the Firms They'll Found
Intel's Edison chip has been launched in a rocket, floated in a weather balloon, fitted into a futuristic light-emitting dress and used to power a dancing robot...
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Google Lets Connected Devices Commune Without Specialized Apps
A new initiative by Google seeks to form an open standard for the Internet of Things, dubbed the Physical Web by the company's Chrome team.
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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks
Researchers are developing programs and platforms that will ensure systems work despite power outages and other issues associated with mobility and connectivity...
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Google Working on Large-Scale Video Displays
Google's advanced-projects lab, Google X, is developing a giant display consisting of smaller screens that fit together to create a seamless image.
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Technology Takes the Wheel
Google's driverless car may still be a work in progress, but the potential for semiautonomous vehicles on American roads is no longer the stuff of science fiction...
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Here Comes the Future: We're Making Robots That Feel!
Cornell University professor Hod Lipson envisions the creation of robots with self-awareness.
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sing Intelligence to nlock the Market For Electric Vehicles
A European Union-funded project recently provided electric vehicles with enhanced energy efficiency in Spain.
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Christof Koch says it is possible people will some day create conscious machines, but they may not look as expected.
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Minority Languages: Cookies, Caches and Cows
The nonprofit Mozilla foundation is seeking to give more users of its open source Web browser the option of a device that speaks their language.
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?
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