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It's Never Been Easier to Avoid Walking. A Cargo-Carrying Robot Might Change That
Boston-based robotics firm Piaggio Fast Forward will soon deploy a bipedal wheeled robot that hauls owners' belongings as it follows behind them.
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DeepMind AI Beats Humans at Deciphering Damaged Ancient Greek Tablets
Researchers at DeepMind trained an artificial intelligence algorithm to guess missing words or characters from Greek inscriptions up to 2,600 years old.
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Silicon Valley Takes On Amazon's Cashierless 'Go' Stores
An area of San Francisco is emerging as a battleground to eliminate the traditional checkout process and reinvent the way consumers shop.
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Russia's Pizza King Wants to Use the Cloud to Take Over the World
Russian pizza magnate Fyodor Ovchinnikov plans to open 1,000 Dodo Pizza outlets in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the next five years, using a combination of application...
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Does Your Toothbrush Have an App Yet?
New technologies are being introduced to the world of dental care.
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The Deep Learning Way to Design Fly-Like Robots
Researchers have developed motion-capture software that uses deep learning to model a fruit fly's movements in three dimensions, in the hope of designing fly-like...
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If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something?
A five-fingered feat could show important progress in Artificial Intelligence research. It is also a stunt.
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How the U.S. Census Kickstarted America’s Computing Industry
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form.
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Canberra Gives AU$32m for Autonomous Decision-Making Research
The Australian government is allocating AU$31.8 million (about US$21.5 million) to the Australian Research Council to study responsible, ethical, and inclusive...
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Lost in Translation?
Machine language translation is advancing rapidly, but can it reach the level of human understanding?
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La Trobe University Swaps Textbooks for VR, AR
La Trobe University will swap out textbooks for augmented reality and virtual reality to teach anatomy as part of a 12-week pilot program.
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That Music You're Dancing To? It's Code
Sonic Pi is a coding language that may be used to construct melodies in real time at live coding shows.
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System Helps Smart Devices Find Their Position
A new system helps networks of smart devices find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
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App Detects Eye Disease in Personal Photos
Baylor University researchers have developed a free smartphone app that uses machine learning to flag eye disease from personal photos, as much as a year ahead...
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EPFL Researchers Invent Low-Cost Alternative to Bitcoin
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a system that represents a new, low-cost way to think about cryptocurrencies.
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Croc-Spotting Drone Patrol Takes Off Down Under
High-tech aerial drones known as "croc spotters," which patrol along riverbeds to detect crocodiles, recently were tested in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
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Research Suggests How Environmental Toxin Produced by Algae May Lead to ALS
Pennsylvania State University researchers used a digital simulation to explore how a toxin generated by saltwater algae might cause Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis...
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Virtual Human Hand Simulation Holds Promise for Prosthetics, VR, Education
Researchers integrated visual effects techniques and magnetic resonance imaging to create an ultra-realistic animated simulation of the human hand in motion.
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