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Darpa's Humanoid Robbie Never Takes His Eyes Off You
In preparation for National Robotics Week, an initiative of the Congressional Robotics Caucus, at the National Museum of American History, which kicks off on...
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At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning to announce Wednesday that they have found a suspicious bump in their data that could be...
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Secure, Synchronized, Social Tv
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...
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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London...
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Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...
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'predator' Smart Camera Locks Onto, Tracks Anything
Zdenek Kalal’s Predator object-tracking software is almost uncanny. Show anything to its all-seeing camera eye, and it will quickly learn to recognize it and...
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How Natural Disasters and Political nrest Affect the Internet
Northwestern University researchers have developed software that analyzes how natural disasters and political upheaval affect the Internet.
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Software Builds 3-D Models From Search Results
University of North Carolina researchers have developed software that can create 3D models of landmarks and geographical locations using 2D photos from online photo...
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How the University of Utah Turns Academic Research Into Successful Startups
The University of Utah ranks first in the U.S. in terms of creating startups based upon campus research. Here are four reasons for its great success.
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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Google Goes Shopping For Patents
Google has made a $900m bid for the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker. The patents could help arm it against...
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Where Will Larry Page Lead Google?
In the 10 years since the last time Larry Page was Google's chief executive, the company has changed a bit. It has gone from an ambitious startup to a publicly...
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Gravity Satellite Yields 'potato Earth' View
It looks like a giant potato in space. And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
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Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has...
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Google Making App that Would Identify People's Faces
Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director...
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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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Wireless Networks Coming to .s. Subway Systems, Slowly
Years after Wi-Fi connections have become ubiquitous on university campuses, in coffee shops, and in public buildings, the ability to connect to the Internet...
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Social-Media Tools sed to Target Corporate Secrets
Not long after airstrikes began in Libya earlier this month, certain attorneys at four U.S. law firms, known for having high-profile clients in the oil industry...
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Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAS) are being used to transform old texts riddled with smudges, crooked type,...
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