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Microsoft Opens Garage to Spark Innovation
It's typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners' enthusiasm for hawking the software...
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Google Looks For the Next Google
Google thinks it can be young and crazy again. And it is betting $200 million that it is right.
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Why Brains Get Creeped Out By Androids
We've all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking...
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DARPA Searches For Life
There’s a hidden clock that underlies every process of every living thing—from when our cells start dividing to how quickly we age. Researchers at Darpa, the...
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Replacing Lost Abilities With a Robot
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Willow Garage have developed a special user interface that enables a mute and partially paralyzed stroke victim to control a robot...
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US to Let Everyday Drivers Test Advanced Wireless Auto Safety Technology
The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to launch a program over the next few months to test new wireless auto safety systems in the real world.
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Ted's Chris Anderson: The Man Who Made Youtube Clever
With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts...
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Who Needs Humans?
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
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Replacing Lost Abilities with a Robot
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...
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How to Be in Two Places at the Same Time
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.
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Physicists Take Steps Toward Delivering Quantum Information to the Home
Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to...
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To Track Militants, U.s. Has System That Never Forgets a Face
When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates...
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Could What Happened to Myspace Happen to Facebook?
MySpace fell from grace for several reasons. First, they sacrificed the service's integrity in pursuit of monetization. For those who remember, the user experience...
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Robots Get Kinect's 'eyes and Ears'
Microsoft has added Kinect's software development kit (SDK) to its free Robotics Developer Studio. Access to raw data as well as Kinect's pattern-recognition algorithms...
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The Ghost Space Shuttle: Nasa Ship in Houston For Every Mission
For 30 years, every time a space shuttle has flown, so has OV-095, the ghost orbiter.
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Nasa Spacecraft to Enter Large Asteroid's Orbit on July 15
On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid...
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Mobile 'Pinging' Claim Raises Legal Questions
A former News of the World journalist's allegation the newspaper paid police to track mobile phones raises serious questions about the U.K.'s eavesdropping laws...
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A New Direction for Digital Compasses
Cell phones and many other mobile devices now come packed with sensors capable of tracking them as they move. The digital compasses, gyroscopes, and accelerometers...
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