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Crickets Inspire Stealthy Robots to Fire Rings of Air
Monash University's Andy Russell used the African cave cricket, Phaeophilacris spectrum, as inspiration for creating stealth communication between robots.
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Kaspar the Friendly Robot Helps Autistic Kids
University of Hertfordshire scientists are working with a preschool for autistic children to study the impact of robots on the development of students' social skills...
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Planet Mercury Visible Before Nasa Craft Orbits It
Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin, Mercury, a rocky wonderland of extremes.
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Researchers Show How a Car's Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely
With a modest amount of expertise, computer hackers could gain remote access to someone's car—just as they do to people's personal computers—and take over the...
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Extremely Fast Mram Data Storage Within Reach
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt researchers have developed a type of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) equipped with a special chip connection that results...
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Taiwan Researchers Turn to Silk for Flexible E-Devices
Silk membranes can be used for flexible e-book readers, LED displays, and RFID tools, according to researchers at the National Tsing Hua University. A team has...
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Physicists Build Single-Atom Memory For Quantum Information
A single atom of rubidium sits at the heart of an exotic new quantum memory device.
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Tv's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
The television is channeling you. Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in...
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Software Progress Beats Moore
One of the old jokes in computing is that what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away.
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Freaks, Geeks, and Gdp
Why hasn't the Internet helped the American economy grow as much as economists thought it would?
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Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (again)
In 1961, just after America's Sputnik moment, the world's first industrial robot debuted at a General Motors assembly plant in Trenton, N.J.
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Is the Navy Trying to Start the Robot Apocalypse?
Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting...
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Will Goal-Line Technology Bring Justice to Soccer?
A sporting miscarriage of justice that occurred last summer triggered a series of experiments that could this weekend see soccer (that's football to the rest...
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10 Questions For David Ferrucci
Why aren't you letting Watson speak for himself today? Watson is trained to answer questions for Jeopardy! It's not an interactive dialogue system, so it can't...
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The New Police Siren: You
Joe Bader tried setting the two tones of his invention four notes apart on the musical scale, but the result sounded like music, not a siren. Same thing when...
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China's Homemade Supercomputer May Be the Most Efficient Ever
China plans to launch a new homegrown supercomputer, the Dawning 6000, this summer, and it "could rival even Blue Gene/Q systems for performance per watt supremacy...
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Thinking Your Way Through Traffic in a Brain-Control Car
John Prine wasn’t far off when he sang in "Living In the Future" that "we're all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds." We're still waiting for our...
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Retooling Algorithms
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms—including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.
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Increasing Processor Efficiency By Matching Power with Demand
For decades, chipmakers strove to develop the fastest and most powerful chips possible and damn the amount of electricity needed to power them, but these days...
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